Assembling Alternatives
Author: Romana Huk
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2003-04-29
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780819565402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst anthology to examine the national borders of postmodern poetry.
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Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry
Author: Luke Roberts
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-03-18
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 3319459589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation only recovering towards the end of his life which was cut short by alcoholism. With close readings of MacSweeney alongside his contemporaries, precursors, and influences, including J.H. Prynne, Shelley, Jack Spicer, and Sylvia Plath, Luke Roberts offers a fresh introduction to the field of modern poetry. Richly detailed with archival and bibliographic research, this book recovers the social and political context of MacSweeney’s exciting, challenging, and controversial impact on modern and contemporary poetry.
International Who's Who in Poetry 2005
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1787
ISBN-13: 185743269X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Lip Service
Author: Bruce Andrews
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781552450635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry. "Bruce Andrews is a performance artist and poet whose texts are some of the most radical of the Language school...Small linguistic units, idioms, phrases and single words, taken from different, sometimes mutually exclusive registers, especially discourses which are socially sensitive and resonant to contemporary ears, enable the poetry to 'suggest a social undecidability.' LIP SERVICE, the long-awaited long poem sequel to SHUT UP, reminds us to 'accept no discourse except love's'" - Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English. Among the titles by Bruce Andrews still available from SPD are I DON'T HAVE ANY PAPER SO SHUT Up and PARADISE AND METHOD.
Phenomenal Reading
Author: Brian M. Reed
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012-04-04
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0817356940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Why do their words appear in unconventional orders? What end do these arrangements serve? Why are they striking? Brian Reed focuses on poetic form as a persistent puzzle, utilizing historical fact and the views of other critics to clarify how particular literary works are constructed and how those constructions lead to specific effects." -- Back cover.
Poetry, Geography, Gender
Author: Alice Entwistle
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2013-09-15
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0708326706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh. Merging traditional literary criticism with cultural-political and geographical analysis, Alice Entwistle shows how writers' different senses of relationship with Wales, its languages, history and imaginative, as well as political, geography feeds the form as well as the content of their poetry. Her innovative critical study thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first century Wales.
The Poetry of Saying
Author: Robert Sheppard
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780853238195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Poetry of Saying unearths a secret history of fifty years of experimental British verse, revealing and illuminating the daring work of British poets who have spent a half-century rewriting the rules of English poetry. Poet Robert Sheppard considers individual poets such as Roy Fisher and Lee Harwood as well as the role of poetry magazines and the Poetry Society. Sheppard's position at the center of the 1950s British Poetry Revival enables him to offer an insider's commentary on the social, political, and historical background of this particularly fertile and exciting period in British poetry.
Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry
Author: Andrew Duncan
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780853237440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Urban Myths
Author: John Tranter
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1458744272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK''Urban Myths:210 poems'' collects the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia. A generous selection of new work is also included. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Tranter's poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art so that we arrive, unexpectedly, at the deepest human mysteries.
Poetry & Barthes
Author: Callie Gardner
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2018-10-11
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1786949393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe influence of Roland Barthes on contemporary culture has been the subject of much analysis, but never before has this influence been closely examined in relation to poetry. This innovative study traces Anglophone poetry’s response to the literary and cultural theory of Barthes — from debate to adoption, adaptation and rejection.
