The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

✍ Scribed by Peter Robinson

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 782
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Handbook offers an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays bringing together ground breaking research into the development of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Limits and Openness of the Contemporary
PART I: MOVEMENTS OVER TIME
1. Modernist Survivors
2. The Thirties Bequest
3. The Unburied Past: Walking with Ghosts of the 1940s
4. ‘Obscure and Doubtful’: Stevie Smith, F. T. Prince, and Legacy
5. The Movement: Never and Always
6. ‘In different voices’: Modernism since the 1960s
7. Two Poetries?: A Re-examination of the ‘Poetry Divide’ in 1970s Britain
8. A Dog’s Chance: The Evolution of Contemporary Women’s Poetry?
9. CAT-scanning the Little Magazine
10. Books and the Market: Trade Publishers, State Subsidies, and Small Presses
PART II: SENSES OF FORM AND TECHNIQUE
11. ‘Space available’: A Poet’s Decisions
12. Contemporary Poetry and Close Reading
13. ‘All livin language is sacred’: Poetry and Varieties of English in these Islands
14. Misremembered Lyric and Orphaned Music
15. ‘The degree of power exercised’: Recent Ekphrasis
16. Cinema Mon Amour: How British Poetry Fell in Love with Film
17. Singing Schools and Beyond: The Roles of Creative Writing
PART III: POETRY IN PLACES
18. Historical and Archaeological: The Poetry of Recovery and Memory
19. London, Albion
20. The ‘London Cut’: Poetry and Science
21. ‘Dafter than we care to own’: Some Poets of the North of England
22. Auden in Ireland
23. ‘Other Modes of Being’: Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, Paul Muldoon, and Translation
24. Writing [W]here: Gender and Cultural Positioning in Ireland and Wales
25. The Altered Sublime: Raworth, Crozier, Prynne
PART IV: BORDER CROSSINGS
26. Dislocating Country: Post-War English Poetry and the Politics of Movement
27. Multi-ethnic British Poetries
28. European Affinities
29. Scottish Poetry in the Wider World
30. The View from the USA
31. Audience and Awkwardness: Personal Poetry in Britain and New Zealand
PART V: RESPONSIBILITIES AND VALUES
32. Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry
33. ‘Is a chat with me your fancy?: Address in Contemporary British Poetry
34. ‘There Again’: Composition, Revision, and Repair
35. Reparation, Atonement, and Redress
36. Contemporary Poetry and Belief
37. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Poet
38. Contemporary Poetry and Value
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