Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry

Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry
Title Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry PDF eBook
Author Andrew Duncan
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Pages 280
Release 2005-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780853237440

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In Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry, Andrew Duncan raises the provocative question of just how accurate—and useful—the concept of a British literary culture is for a nation that stretches over 600 miles and includes four distinct national cultures. He identifies distinct regional poetic traditions in Scotland, Wales, and the north of England, examining writers such as Glyn Jones, Joseph Macleod, and Colin Simms and coming to the startling conclusion that the finest British poets of recent decades have lived not at the heart of "British" literary society, but in the outlands of the British Isles.

Poetry and Performance During the British Poetry Revival 1960–1980

Poetry and Performance During the British Poetry Revival 1960–1980
Title Poetry and Performance During the British Poetry Revival 1960–1980 PDF eBook
Author Juha Virtanen
Publisher Springer
Pages 212
Release 2017-08-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3319582119

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This book examines intersections of poetry and performance during the British Poetry Revival. Its investigations are centered on four specific performance events: The First International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965; Denise Riley’s first public reading at the Cambridge Poetry Festival in 1977; Eric Mottram’s Pollock Record; and Allen Fisher’s Blood Bone Brain. Drawing upon a range of archival resources, recordings, and interviews, Juha Virtanen offers engaging and detailed “archaeological” accounts and analyses of these largely unexamined events as well as the potential dialogues between them. The appendices of the book also feature previously unpublished interviews with both Fisher and Riley. This book is essential reading for poetry and performance enthusiasts, particularly those interested in innovative British Poetry.

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English
Title The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English PDF eBook
Author Jeremy Noel-Tod
Publisher
Pages 727
Release 2013-05-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199640254

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This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Title The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry PDF eBook
Author Peter Robinson
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 782
Release 2013-09-26
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0191652466

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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.

British Literature in Transition, 1960-1980: Flower Power

British Literature in Transition, 1960-1980: Flower Power
Title British Literature in Transition, 1960-1980: Flower Power PDF eBook
Author Catherine Mary McLoughlin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 407
Release 2019
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107129575

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This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a diverse range of authors, texts, genres and movements. It considers innovations in form, emergent identities, changes in attitudes, preoccupations and in the mind itself, local and regional developments, and shifts within the oeuvres of individual authors.

The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010

The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010
Title The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010 PDF eBook
Author Eric Falci
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 291
Release 2015-11-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107029635

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This book provides an overview of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century.

Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry

Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry
Title Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry PDF eBook
Author Kyra Piperides
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 188
Release 2023-07-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1000910393

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Delving into the landscapes and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century South, East, and West Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities, Political Crises theorises Yorkshire as a distinct region of poetry in its own right. In outlining the commonalities and parameters of this branch of poetry, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry engages the work with a selection of poets writing in and about the region since 1945, including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Simon Armitage, Helen Mort, Zaffar Kunial, Kate Fox, and Vicky Foster. Charting the developments in Yorkshire poetry, this book explores several key contexts – including deindustrialisation, the Miners’ Strikes, and Brexit – in detail, evidencing the impacts of these sociopolitical events on the poetry of a region. Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry investigates 75 years of poetry to ask the question: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words, what is it that connects poems by these writers, whilst setting them apart from poetry of other UK regions?