[To be developed: summary list of influenced cited, and whether cited by more than one poet in the group.]
Cahal was influenced by (in order):
W.B. Yeats
John Hewitt
Seamus Heaney
Paul Muldoon
(Auden, MacNeice, Hughes, Plath, Larkin, McGough, Derek Mahon)
all the members of the Poetry Workshop
Osip Mandelstam, Tom Paulin, Matthew Sweeney, Raymond Carver, Anna Akhmatova,
Maurice Riordan, Charles Baudelaire, Mike Donaghy;
individual poems by famous or unknown poets in current magazines or old anthologies.
Richard Price:
Of course, the poets in the Workshop, and other friends
The Romantic lyric
Robert Frost's shorter poems.
Ted Hughes's Crow
John Donne
T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Yeats and Browning
Paul Muldoon
Sean O'Brien
some of the so-called 'New Generation' poets, especially Don Paterson
Amy Clampitt
Alice Oswald
poets I know well and work/workshop with, especially Jane Draycott.
the visual arts
the books of typographer and designer Colin SackettJohn Cayley
Thomas A. Clark
Out of everywhere : linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 1996)
poetic collaboration, or exchange, by e-mail with the poet Frances Presley.
teachers, passionate in turn about D.H. Lawrence, Louis MacNeice, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Saxon and mediaeval poetry.
Sean O'Brien, Kathleen Jamie, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.H. Auden, Carol Ann Duffy, Glyn Maxwell, Sylvia Plath, John Donne, Simon Armitage, Philip Gross, Alice Oswald.
my brother His theatre and energy
Another leftover was the a real desire to work collaboratively.