“Kinked up like it wants to bark”: Contemporary British Poetry at the tomb of the Poète Maudit’

This essay discusses the poetry of Sean Bonney, Peter Manson, and Grace Lake / Anna Mendelssohn in the context of what it means to use the trope of the Poet Maudit in a twentieth century fin de siecle.It examines the use and infuence of Nineteenth Century French poetry on British vanguard poetry of the 1990s and first decade of the 'noughties'.