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Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics : Modernist Legacies.

✍ Scribed by Lang, Abigail

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Leaves
259
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these poets' connections with their Modernist predecessors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Warring Clans, Podsolized Ground: Language in Contemporary UK Poetry....Pages 17-39
Skipping across the Pond: Interaction between American and British Poetries 1964–1970....Pages 41-57
New British Schools....Pages 59-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
“Who Am I to Say? How Little”: Anthony Barnett’s Citations Followed on....Pages 81-94
“Kinked Up Like It Wants to Bark”: Contemporary British Poetry at the Tomb of the Poète Maudit....Pages 95-108
The Atypicality of Jeff Hilson: Metrical Language and Modernist Pleasure....Pages 109-128
Balsam Flex: Cassette Culture and Poetry....Pages 129-141
Caroline Bergvall’s Poetics of the Infrathin....Pages 143-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Transcultural Hybridity and Modernist Legacies: Observations on Late Twentieth- and Early Twenty-First-Century British Poetry....Pages 159-175
Langwij a thi guhtr....Pages 177-191
Strikers with Poems....Pages 193-204
Forms of Reproduction in Wendy Mulford’s Early Work....Pages 205-223
“Ill read ill said”: Faultlines in Contemporary Poetics as Ideology....Pages 225-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-263

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