proverbs and laments that refer to a broader ‘discussion’ between rune singers, collectors, and modern observers over the course of Finland’s poetic history. 1960s Post WWII Finland underwent an urbanisation which changed poets’ relationships with culture and nature, specifically the forest. Like much of Europe and the western world, 1960's Finland saw an artistic period of challenging old taboo's where its poetry become heavily politicised. Though there also existed a school of poets who avoided politics and social idioms altogether. Their use of free rhythm, lack of rhyme and symbolic imagery showed a scepticism towards worldly politics in favour of honing lyrical expression. After the war era of the 1930s, Finland’s poetry mainly consisted of lines of prayer and mourning. However, as the turmoil settled in later decades its poetry became one of consideration, a reflection on past conflict as well as the international conflict beginning to rise with the Cold War where Finland found itself between powers from both East and West. This change in poetic attitude was in direct relation to the increase of Western consumer products alongside increases in income and mobility which gave well-to-do Finns the luxury of indulgent free time (City 514). The rapid urbanisation that also began in this period also brought forth buildings bearing no historical roots to folkloric history disrupting both a sense of cultural identity and social cohesion within these new cities. Nonetheless the rise of East/ West politics and the discussion of international relations inspired younger more ambitious poets whose thinking predominantly came from Leftist Marxism. Modernist poets, Paavo Haavikko and Pentti Saarikoski, reacted against the war generation drawing influence from T.S Eliot and other Finland-Swedish modernists. Their writing reflects historical parallels among other nations who had lost the war. The aesthetic of these poets was shaped using experimentation, introducing techniques such as collage and montage in order to what Veivo says, ‘open the space of the text to foreign voices and materials and to connect with everyday life, politics and a wide range of social discourses’. This opened the poetic form to the creolization of language and allowing for elements, linguistic as well as social and political, to contaminate and merge with the poetry regardless of order. Some of the poetry from this time was also written to be published alongside popular articles of varying topics from economy, politics to community statistics on alcohol consumption. The ‘new poetry’ of