The following remarks were delivere...

The following remarks were delivered at the first Eric Mottram interview in Poetics and Cultural Studies at The University of London's middle for English Studies on September 19 1997 I have largely left them in their somewhat fragmentary talk-form. Eric Mottram (1924-1995) was the author of from one side of to the other a hundred and sixty articles and twenty critical works, including many essays forward poetry and poetics and the first book-length consideration of William Burroughs; the author of twenty collections of poetry; the first teacher of American Studies in the University of London; and the editor of metrical composition ...