The following is a rejoinder to Don...

The following is a rejoinder to Don Paterson's corrosive introduction to recently made known British Poetry, an anthology of British bards born after 1945 released forward April Fools Day 2004 by means of Graywolf Press. Given Graywolf's stunning publicity assortment ($30,000 per book, according to an article at Michael Scharf in the 15 April 2004 Publisher's Weekly), we can reckon upon more than a few reviews that take Paterson's introduction as divine revelation and present this book as "The and nothing else definitive anthology of contemporary British rhyme available in the United States" (as the book's backside has it, ignoring