Vitalist Poetry

Vitalist poetry is a genre of English-language poetry developed in the 1970s by a group of poets seeking a more vital poetry, gathered around the magazine Littack and its supplement, published from 1972 to 1980. The movement was defined in Littack through publication of the Vitalist Memoranda and responses to it by contributors including William Oxley, Peter Russell, Anthony L. Johnson, Anthony Rudolf, Walter Perry and Richard Burns; the Littack archive was sold at Sotheby's in London in 1990 to the University of Texas at Austin.