A similar focus on the capacity of poetry to engage poet and readers in the joint search for meaning in the external world is to be found in the work of poets such as Philippe Jaccottet, Eugène Guillevic, and Michel Deguy.
Literary comrades of the 60s included the politically engaged poets Christopher Logue and the late Adrian Mitchell.
A committed Socialist Workers Party member, he is possibly the most politically engaged white poet writing today, which makes for exciting reading (and listening) whatever your political beliefs.
Once engaged to poet and musician Alexander Birkin, Jane Birkin's nephew, who died aged 20 in a car crash, she married her husband Lorne Stormonth-Darling, a hypnotherapist and a Tibetan-antiques dealer, in a Buddhist wedding in the Himalayas in 2006, before they tied the knot formally at home in West Sussex in 2007.
The exhibit is threefold: the politically engaged writer, poet, and intellectual was an avid collector of objects--primitive sculptures from Oceania, pre-Hispanic figures from Mexico, Inuit objects as well as paintings, drawings and photographs that he acquired or was given by his friends.
From Marilyn Hacker's lesbian sonnets to the Afro-formalist invention of the bop, a wide array of American poets are engaging with and encouraging radical reconsiderations of received forms.
Poems about the suffering in Moscow appear alongside verses full of passion and guilt about the affairs the poet engaged in while her husband was away.
Later, at the court of Weimar, the poet engaged in a very intense, decade-long but apparently nonsexual relationship with a married woman, Charlotte von Stein.
Ruth Siverns, who has died aged 85, was engaged to the poet Philip Larkin from 1948 until 1950 and inspired some of his most significant early poems.
Poets engage our attention not just in spite of their vices, but because of what they do with them.
