Contemporary poetry

✍ Scribed by Williams, Nerys

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Series: Edinburgh critical guides
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Discussing the work of more than 60 poets from the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, from Sujata Bhatt to M. Philip NourbeSe and from John Ashbery to Eliot Weinberger, Nerys Williams guides students through the key ideas and movements in the study of poetry today. With reference to original manifestos and web-based experiments, as well as the role of information culture in shaping and distributing poetry globally this book engages with the full vitality of the contemporary poetry scene.

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Series Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Chronology......Page 13
Introduction......Page 26
Chapter 1 Lyric Subjects......Page 50
Chapter 2 Politics and Poetics......Page 83
Chapter 3 Performance and the Poem......Page 123
Chapter 4 Environment and Space......Page 158
Chapter 5 Dialects, Idiolects and Multilingual Poetries......Page 196
Conclusion......Page 232
Student Resources......Page 256
Index......Page 280

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