The English Intelligencer was a literary magazine/newsletter founded and edited by the poets Andrew Crozier

Andrew Crozier

Andrew Thomas Knights Crozier was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Life:Crozier was educated at Dulwich College, and later Christ's College, Cambridge. His 1976 book Pleats won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, awarded jointly that year with Lee Harwood...

 and Peter Riley

Peter Riley

Peter Riley is a contemporary English poet, essayist, and editor. Riley is known as a Cambridge poet, part of the group vaguely associated with J. H. Prynne which today is acknowledged as an important epicenter of innovative poetry in the United Kingdom. Riley was an editor and major contributor...

. It played a key role in the emergence of many of the poets associated with the British Poetry Revival

British Poetry Revival

The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.-Beginnings:...

. Consciously conceived as an attempt to unite a British avant-garde in response to similar developments in the United States

Poetry of the United States

American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies...

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The Intelligencer was circulated to a mailing list of British poets

British poetry

British poetry is a term rarely used, as almost all poets of the British world are clearly identified with one of the various nations within those areas....

. The number of correspondents varied between 25 and 65, with a constant core of about a dozen. It was mimeographed and appeared roughly every three weeks, with the total run amounting to 36 issues between January 1966 and April 1968. The poets and writers who contributed and/or corresponded with the Intelligencer included Tom Raworth

Tom Raworth

Tom Raworth is a London-born poet and visual artist who has published over forty books of poetry and prose since 1966. His works has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth is a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. He lives in Brighton, England.-Early life and work:Raworth...

, Douglas Oliver

Douglas Oliver

Douglas Dunlop Oliver was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s. He received a...

, Lee Harwood

Lee Harwood

Lee Harwood is a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Life:Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then living in Chertsey, Surrey...

, Jim Burns, Tom Pickard

Tom Pickard

Tom Pickard is a poet, radio and film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival....

, Elaine Feinstein

Elaine Feinstein

Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.-Biography:...

, Barry MacSweeney

Barry MacSweeney

Barry MacSweeney was an English poet and journalist.-Life and work:Barry MacSweeney was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He worked as a professional journalist throughout most of his life...

, John James

John James (poet)

John James is a British poet.- Biography :John James was born 1939 in Cardiff and was educated at Saint Illtyd’s College there. He left the college in 1957 to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol and later undertook postgraduate studies in American Literature at the...

, J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction...

, Donald Davie

Donald Davie

Donald Alfred Davie was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.-Biography:...

, J. H. Prynne

J. H. Prynne

Jeremy Halvard Prynne is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival.Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson and Donald Davie. His first book, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems was published in 1962; Prynne has excluded it from his canon...

, John Riley, C. H. Sisson

C. H. Sisson

Charles Hubert Sisson CH was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator.-Life:...

, Chris Torrance

Chris Torrance

Chris Torrance is a poet and musician associated with the British Poetry Revival.- Biography :Born in Edinburgh, Torrance grew up in London and moved to rural Wales in 1970. He has been teaching creative writing at the Cardiff University since 1976...

, Gael Turnbull

Gael Turnbull

Gael Turnbull was a Scottish poet who was an important precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Turnbull was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the North of England and in Canada...

, Jeff Nuttall

Jeff Nuttall

Jeff Nuttall was an English poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, anarchist sympathiser and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture. He was the brother of literary critic A. D. Nuttall.-Life and work:Jeff Nuttall was born in Clitheroe,...

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External links

• Finding aid for The English Intelligencer Archive at Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University