Conductors of Chaos: A poetry anthology

Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Iain Sinclair, and published in the United Kingdom in 1996 (see 1996 in poetry) by Picador. In a backhanded piece of self-justification, Sinclair in the Introduction wrote that

"The secret history of ... 'the British Poetry Revival' ... is as arcane a field of study as the heresies and schisms of the early Church."

In fact the selection includes both a number of 'Revival' poets, and a few figures chosen as 'precursors', with some deliberate scheme of comment on the contemporary as well as the retrospection involving the 1960s and 1970s.

Poets in Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology

 * Caroline Bergvall
 * Brian Catling
 * cris cheek
 * Kelvin Corcoran
 * Andrew Crozier
 * J.F. Hendry
 * Andrew Duncan
 * Allen Fisher
 * Bill Griffiths
 * Alan Halsey
 * Lee Harwood
 * Michael Haslam
 * Stewart Home
 * John James
 * Grace Lake
 * Tony Lopez
 * W.S. Graham
 * Barry MacSweeney
 * Rod Mengham
 * Drew Milne
 * David Jones
 * Geraldine Monk
 * Douglas Oliver
 * Maggie O'Sullivan - Out to Lunch (Ben Watson) - Ian Patterson
 * J.H. Prynne
 * Jeremy Reed
 * David Gascoyne
 * Denise Riley
 * Peter Riley
 * Nicholas Moore
 * Stephen Rodefer
 * Chris Torrance
 * John Wilkinson
 * Aaron Williamson