{"product_id":"a-companion-to-contemporary-british-and-irish-poetry-1960-2015-hardback-9781118843208","title":"A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 (Hardback) 9781118843208","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWolfgang Gortschacher (Edited by), David Malcolm (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118843208, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e656 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 4.3 cm, 1.077 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith contributions from noted scholars in the field, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015\u003c\/i\u003e offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePuts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten for students and academics of contemporary poetry, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1 Introduction—1960–2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction—1960–2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2 Contexts, Forms, Topics, and Movements 29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ea. Institutions, Histories, Receptions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e1 Some Institutions of the British and Irish (Sub)Fields of Poetry: Little Magazines, Publishers, Prizes, and Poetry in Translation 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolfgang Görtschacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Anthologies: Distortions and Corrections, Poetries, and Voices 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Minding the Trench: The Reception of British and Irish Poetry in America, 1960–2015 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Bourne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Readers: Who Reads Modern Poetry? 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuha Virtanen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eb. Genre, Kind, Technique\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e1 Manifestos and Poetics\/Poets on Writing 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Weston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Genres of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGareth Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Elegy 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Regan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Sonnet 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Free Verse and Open Form 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLacy Rumsey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Satire 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Wheatley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Traditional Short Lyric Poem in Britain and Ireland, 1960–2015 169\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Liardet and Jennifer Militello\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 (Post)Modern Lyric Poetry 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Pestell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Long Poem After Pound 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWill May\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ec. Groupings, Themes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Generations 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Hampson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Movement 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Malcolm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Liverpool Poets 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLudmiła Gruszewska-Blaim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The British Poetry Revival 1960–1978 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Sheppard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Poets of Ulster 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartin Ryle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Martian School: Toward a Poetics of Wonder 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMałgorzata Grzegorzewska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Linguistically Innovative Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s 263\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott Thurston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Concrete and Performance Poetry 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJerzy Jarniewicz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Performances of Technology as Compositional Practice in British and Irish Contemporary Poetry 283\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Sparrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 “Here to Stay”: Black British Poetry and the Post‐WWII United Kingdom 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBartosz Wójcik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Anglo‐Jewish Poetry 319\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Malcolm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Gay and Lesbian Poetry 329\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrudence Chamberlain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Women Poets in the British Isles 339\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarc Porée\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Irish Women Poets 349\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonika Szuba\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Religious Poetry, 1960–2015 359\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHugh Dunkerley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Love Poetry 371\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleanor Spencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Political Poetry 381\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIan C. Davidson and Jo Lindsay Walton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Radical Landscape Poetry in Scotland 393\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Riach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 \u003ci\u003eCoincidentia Oppositorum\u003c\/i\u003e: Myth in Contemporary Poetry 403\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErik Martiny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ed. The Past and Other Countries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 History and Poetry 417\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJerzy Jarniewicz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 British and Irish Poets Abroad\/in Exile 427\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlyn Pursglove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 3 Poets and Poems: Canon, Off‐Canon, Non‐Canon 441\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 John Agard 443\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRalf Hertel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Eavan Boland 453\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Hühn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Paul Durcan 461\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJessika Köhler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 James Fenton 473\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Malcolm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Bill Griffiths 485\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIan C. Davidson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Excluding Visions of Life in Poems by Thom Gunn 501\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTomasz Wiśniewski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 “Now Put It Together”: Lee Harwood and the Gentle Art of Collage 511\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Sheppard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Listening to Words and Silence: The Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings 523\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean Ward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 “Forever in Excess”: Barry MacSweeney, Consumerism, and Popular Culture 535\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Batchelor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 When Understanding Breaks in Waves: Voices and Messages in Edwin Morgan’s Poetry 549\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonika Kocot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Grace Nichols 561\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePilar Sánchez Calle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 F. T. Prince 573\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWill May\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Kathleen Raine 583\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlyn Pursglove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 “Everything Except Justice Is An Impertinence”: The Poetry of Peter Riley 595\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Anne Stevenson 607\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleanor Spencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Paula Meehan—Vocal Cartographies: Public and Private 619\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolfgang Görtschacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 629\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52507206910232,"sku":"9781118843208","price":143.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781118843208.jpg?v=1786439715","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-companion-to-contemporary-british-and-irish-poetry-1960-2015-hardback-9781118843208","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}