Michael Rosen 's weekly insight into the world of poetry includes reviews of new collections and an interview with Brian Patten , who once claimed that "poetry is the monster hiding in the child's dark room". This week's reassessment is of the work of the Objectivists, an alliance of mainly
American left-wing experimental poets in the 1930s that included Louis Zukofsky
. His stripped-down verse was described as "electric shorthand".