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1 1 A more detailed account of the Movement poets and their poetics can be found in, for example, Sheppard (2005, 20–34).

2 2 A more thorough discussion of these readerly practices is available in, for example, Middleton (2005, 1–24).

3 3 Mottram's commitment to the “parallel tradition”—and his distaste for the “mainstream”—of poetry is discernible in both his essays and his comments in interviews. See, for example, Mottram (1993, 15–50) and Mottram (2000, 48–94).

4 4 Examples of studies and anthologies that have tried to complicate the perceived divisions between the “mainstream” and the “avant‐garde” include Barry (2000), Barry (2006), and Hamilton (2013).

5 5 As a case in point, Don Paterson's introduction to New British Poetry claimed that experimental poets were “capable of nothing more than monotone angst […] and a kind of joyless wordplay” (Paterson and Simic 2004, xxxii). As Andrea Brady puts it, this was “so fanatical a diagnosis that all readers might as well ignore it” (Brady 2004, 397).

6 6 This claim was contested in the 1980s. However, at the time when Fisher was writing Place, the cannibalistic ritual was the leading theory about the skull found at Mt. Circeo.

7 7 More discussion on Xing the Line can be found in Hilson (2012). Archived information about events organized by Luna and Careless is available in Hi Zero (n.d.).

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9 9 In 2016, Edwards decided to cease production of new titles, although “all remaining titles will be kept in print as long as possible” (Edwards n.d.).