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Zusatztext Its range is enormous and will serve for many years to come as a perspective upon the various aspects of the poetic scene ... immensely informative and exciting contents. Informationen zum Autor Edited by Peter Robinson, Professor of English and American Literature, The University of Reading. Klappentext This Handbook offers an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays bringing together ground breaking research into the development of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Zusammenfassung This Handbook offers an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays bringing together ground breaking research into the development of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Limits and Openness of the Contemporary I. Movements over Time 1: Edward Larrissy: Modernist Survivors 2: Michael O'Neill: The Thirties Bequest 3: Leo Mellor: The Unburied Past: Walking with Ghosts of the 1940s 4: William May: 'Obscure and Doubtful': Stevie Smith, F. T. Prince, and Legacy 5: Martin Dodsworth: The Movement: Never and Always 6: Jeremy Noel-Tod: 'In different voices': Modernism since the 1960s 7: Helen Bailey: Two Poetries?: A Re-examination of the 'Poetry Divide' in 1970s Britain 8: Deryn Rees-Jones: A Dog's Chance: The Evolution of Contemporary Women's Poetry? 9: Richard Price: CAT-scanning the Little Magazine 10: Matthew Sperling: Books and the Market: Trade Publishers, State Subsidies, and Small Presses II. Senses of Form and Technique 11: Jeffrey Wainwright: 'Space available': A Poet's Decisions 12: Adam Piette: Contemporary Poetry and Close Reading 13: Simon Dentith: 'All livin language is sacred': Poetry and Varieties of English in these Islands 14: Zoë Skoulding: Misremembered Lyric and Orphaned Music 15: Conor Carville: 'The degree of power exercised': Recent Ekphrasis 16: Sophie Mayer: Cinema Mon Amour: How British Poetry Fell in Love with Film 17: Peter Carpenter: Singing Schools and Beyond: The Roles of Creative Writing III. Poetry in Places 18: Heather O'Donoghue: Historical and Archaeological: The Poetry of Recovery and Memory 19: John Kerrigan: London, Albion 20: Peter Middleton: The 'London Cut': Poetry and Science 21: David Wheatley: 'Dafter than we care to own': Some Poets of the North of England 22: John Redmond: Auden in Ireland 23: Maria Johnston: 'Other Modes of Being': Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Paul Muldoon, and Translation 24: Alice Entwistle: Writing [W]here: Gender and Cultural Positioning in Ireland and Wales 25: Rod Mengham: The Altered Sublime: Raworth, Crozier, Prynne IV. Border Crossings 26: David Herd: Dislocating Country: Post-War English Poetry and the Politics of Movement 27: Omaar Hena: Multi-ethnic British Poetries 28: Stephen Romer: European Affinities 29: Iain Galbraith: Scottish Poetry in the Wider World 30: Romana Huk: The View from the USA 31: Anna Smaill: Audience and Awkwardness: Personal Poetry in Britain and New Zealand V. Responsibilities and Values 32: Maximilian de Gaynesforde: Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry 33: Natalie Pollard: 'Is a chat with me your fancy?': Address in Contemporary British Poetry 34: Peter Robinson: 'There Again': Composition, Revision, and Repair 35: Piers Pennington: Reparation, Atonement, and Redress 36: Michael Symmons Roberts: Contemporary Poetry and Belief 37: Andrea Brady: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Poet 38: Peter Robinson: Contemporary Poetry and Value ...
