[F.F. Teague]

First, apologies; this is not a new article. But recently I've been wondering about what sort of poet I might be and I'm sufficiently intrigued by a few lines of the piece to ask a question on the 'sphere. Here they are:

'British poets who work in form and meter are apparently just being... British (that Modernism stuff was all very American and Continental after all), i.e., old formalists. New Formalists have to be American for some reason.'

Does this mean that British poets can't be New Formalists? Sorry if that's a silly question; it could be that A.E. is being tongue-in-cheek. There are a lot of interesting comments below the article; I spotted Susan and Mary. I suppose I'm just wondering where the movement is at the moment. Thriving? Dwindling? And only in the USA?

Best wishes,
Fliss