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Author:   Peter Robinson (Professor of English and American Literature, Professor of English and American Literature, The University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   1.345kg
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9780198778547

ISBN 10:   0198778546
Pages:   782
Publication Date:   20 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Peter Robinson: 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

Reviews

probably the major publication on British poetry since 1950 ... it is a tribute to the editor's wise and good-natured open-mindedness that he has managed to bring so many of the 'ways of life' which call themselves poetry under one roof. The Year's Work in English Studies the intellectual grasp of each subject underpinning every chapter is superb. The breadth and depth of the chapters and the volume as a whole make this a marvellous guide to contemporary British and Irish poetry ... The straightforward style of writing is never patronising or pedantically academic, making it a pleasure to read for any purpose. Reference Reviews Peter Robinson's ... skilful navigation of the always mist-shrouded waters of the present is conducted with unostentatious conviction ... a lively and informative book ... It gives strong representation to poetries often marginalized in such overview books, and it is a very considerable achievement. The Review of English Studies 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. Tears in the Fence

A lively and informative book ... It gives strong representation to poetries often marginalized in such overview books, and it is a very considerable achievement. It is also, self-evidently, a necessary purchase for all university libraries. Peter Barry, The Review of English Studies

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Edited by Peter Robinson, Professor of English and American Literature, The University of Reading.

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