So Here We Are

by David Caddy

In April 2007, when Didi Menendez, publishing director of MiPO publications and miPOradio, invited me to present a monthly series of literary talks, my remit was to be personal, direct and contemporary, in the manner of Alistair Cooke's Letters from America. So Here We Poetic Letters from England began somewhat gingerly on 7 May 2007, with an essay on aspects of my poetic background, and picked up pace from there. I attempted to give some background to the contemporary poetry scene in England as well as responding to the deaths of poets, such as Bill Griffiths and Andrew Crozier. The talks were written quickly and intended as intelligent introductions rather than definitive statements. Their aim was to stimulate the reader/listener and prompt further reading and discussion. (David Caddy)

156 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2012

About the author

Poet, essayist, critic, literary sociologist and historian. He has edited international literary journal Tears in the Fence since 1984. His most recent book is Cycling After Thomas And The English (Spout Hill Press 2013). He was co-author of London: City of Words (2006), a literary companion, with Westrow Cooper. Most recent books of poems are So Here We Are (Shearsman 2012), The Bunny Poems (Shearsman 2011), Man in Black (Penned in the Margins 2007), and The Willy Poems (Clamp Down Press USA 2004). He has recently published essays on Jeremy Prynne, the Prose Poem, Charles Bukowski, Poetry and walking, David Chaloner and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and William Wordsworth’s ‘The Soltary Reaper’.