Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other arts; its association with particular locations and places; its connection with, and difference from, poetry in other parts of the world; and its circling around such ethical issues as whether poetry can perform actions in the world, can atone, redress, or repair, and how its significance is inseparable from acts of evaluation in both poets and readers. Though the book is not structured to feature chapters on authors thought to be canonical, on the principle that contemporary writers are by definition not yet canonical, the volume contains commentary on many prominent poets, as well as finding space for its contributors' enthusiasms for numerous less familiar figures. It has been organized to be read from cover to cover as an ever deepening exploration of a complex field, to be read in one or more of its five thematically structured sections, or indeed to be read by picking out single chapters or discussions of poets that particularly interest its individual readers.

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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: 17.60cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 24.80cm
Weight:   1.506kg
ISBN:  

9780199596805

ISBN 10:   0199596808
Pages:   782
Publication Date:   26 September 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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 Own Chance: The Evolution of Women's Poetry 1979-2010 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 exercized': 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': Science and Language 21: David Wheatley: 'Dafter than we care to own': Some Poets of the North 22: John Redmond: Auden in Ireland 23: Maria Johnston: 'Other Modes of Being': Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill 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 U. S. A. 31: Anna Smaill: Audience and Awkwardness: Personal Poetry in Britain and New Zealand V. Responsibilities and Values 32: Max 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

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 *

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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Peter Robinson is Professor of English and American Literature at the the University of Reading.

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