The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 October 2016
- ISBN 9780198778547
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages782 pages
- Size 245x170x40 mm
- Weight 1345 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other arts; its association with particular locations and places; its connection with, and difference from, poetry in other parts of the world; and its circling around such ethical issues as whether poetry can perform actions in the world, can atone, redress, or repair, and how its significance is inseparable from acts of evaluation in both poets and readers. Though the book is not structured to feature chapters on authors thought to be canonical, on the principle that contemporary writers are by definition not yet canonical, the volume contains commentary on many prominent poets, as well as finding space for its contributors' enthusiasms for numerous less familiar figures. It has been organized to be read from cover to cover as an ever deepening exploration of a complex field, to be read in one or more of its five thematically structured sections, or indeed to be read by picking out single chapters or discussions of poets that particularly interest its individual readers.
probably the major publication on British poetry since 1950 ... it is a tribute to the editor's wise and good-natured open-mindedness that he has managed to bring so many of the 'ways of life' which call themselves poetry under one roof.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Limits and Openness of the Contemporary
I. Movements over Time
Modernist Survivors
The Thirties Bequest
The Unburied Past: Walking with Ghosts of the 1940s
'Obscure and Doubtful': Stevie Smith, F. T. Prince, and Legacy
The Movement: Never and Always
'In different voices': Modernism since the 1960s
Two Poetries?: A Re-examination of the 'Poetry Divide' in 1970s Britain
A Dog's Chance: The Evolution of Contemporary Women's Poetry?
CAT-scanning the Little Magazine
Books and the Market: Trade Publishers, State Subsidies, and Small Presses
II. Senses of Form and Technique
'Space available': A Poet's Decisions
Contemporary Poetry and Close Reading
'All livin language is sacred': Poetry and Varieties of English in these Islands
Misremembered Lyric and Orphaned Music
'The degree of power exercised': Recent Ekphrasis
Cinema Mon Amour: How British Poetry Fell in Love with Film
Singing Schools and Beyond: The Roles of Creative Writing
III. Poetry in Places
Historical and Archaeological: The Poetry of Recovery and Memory
London, Albion
The 'London Cut': Poetry and Science
'Dafter than we care to own': Some Poets of the North of England
Auden in Ireland
'Other Modes of Being': Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Paul Muldoon, and Translation
Writing [W]here: Gender and Cultural Positioning in Ireland and Wales
The Altered Sublime: Raworth, Crozier, Prynne
IV. Border Crossings
Dislocating Country: Post-War English Poetry and the Politics of Movement
Multi-ethnic British Poetries
European Affinities
Scottish Poetry in the Wider World
The View from the USA
Audience and Awkwardness: Personal Poetry in Britain and New Zealand
V. Responsibilities and Values
Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry
'Is a chat with me your fancy?': Address in Contemporary British Poetry
'There Again': Composition, Revision, and Repair
Reparation, Atonement, and Redress
Contemporary Poetry and Belief
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Poet
Contemporary Poetry and Value
