Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and Britis
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xvii
Section 1 Introduction—1960–2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 1
1 Introduction—1960–2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 3
Wolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm
Section 2 Contexts, Forms, Topics, and Movements 29
a. Institutions, Histories, Receptions
1 Some Institutions of the British and Irish (Sub)Fields of Poetry: Little Magazines, Publishers, Prizes, and Poetry in Translation 31
Wolfgang Görtschacher
2 Anthologies: Distortions and Corrections, Poetries, and Voices 63
David Kennedy
3 Minding the Trench: The Reception of British and Irish Poetry in America, 1960–2015 71
Daniel Bourne
4 Readers: Who Reads Modern Poetry? 87
Juha Virtanen
b. Genre, Kind, Technique
1 Manifestos and Poetics/Poets on Writing 97
Daniel Weston
2 The Genres of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 107
Gareth Farmer
3 The Elegy 119
Stephen Regan
4 The Sonnet 129
David Fuller
5 Free Verse and Open Form 143
Lacy Rumsey
6 Satire 159
David Wheatley
7 The Traditional Short Lyric Poem in Britain and Ireland, 1960–2015 169
Tim Liardet and Jennifer Militello
8 (Post)Modern Lyric Poetry 179
Alex Pestell
9 The Long Poem After Pound 191
Will May
c. Groupings, Themes
1 Generations 201
Robert Hampson
2 The Movement 213
David Malcolm
3 The Liverpool Poets 223
Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim
4 The British Poetry Revival 1960–1978 235
Robert Sheppard
5 Poets of Ulster 245
Martin Ryle
6 The Martian School: Toward a Poetics of Wonder 255
Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
7 Linguistically Innovative Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s 263
Scott Thurston
8 Concrete and Performance Poetry 273
Jerzy Jarniewicz
9 Performances of Technology as Compositional Practice in British and Irish Contemporary Poetry 283
John Sparrow
10 “Here to Stay”: Black British Poetry and the Post‐WWII United Kingdom 305
Bartosz Wójcik
11 Anglo‐Jewish Poetry 319
David Malcolm
12 Gay and Lesbian Poetry 329
Prudence Chamberlain
13 Women Poets in the British Isles 339
Marc Porée
14 Irish Women Poets 349
Monika Szuba
15 Religious Poetry, 1960–2015 359
Hugh Dunkerley
16 Love Poetry 371
Eleanor Spencer
17 Political Poetry 381
Ian C. Davidson and Jo Lindsay Walton
18 Radical Landscape Poetry in Scotland 393
Alan Riach
19 Coincidentia Oppositorum: Myth in Contemporary Poetry 403
Erik Martiny
d. The Past and Other Countries
1 History and Poetry 417
Jerzy Jarniewicz
2 British and Irish Poets Abroad/in Exile 427
Glyn Pursglove
Section 3 Poets and Poems: Canon, Off‐Canon, Non‐Canon 441
1 John Agard 443
Ralf Hertel
2 Eavan Boland 453
Peter Hühn
3 Paul Durcan 461
Jessika Köhler
4 James Fenton 473
David Malcolm
5 Bill Griffiths 485
Ian C. Davidson
6 Excluding Visions of Life in Poems by Thom Gunn 501
Tomasz Wiśniewski
7 “Now Put It Together”: Lee Harwood and the Gentle Art of Collage 511
Robert Sheppard
8 Listening to Words and Silence: The Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings 523
Jean Ward
9 “Forever in Excess”: Barry MacSweeney, Consumerism, and Popular Culture 535
Paul Batchelor
10 When Understanding Breaks in Waves: Voices and Messages in Edwin Morgan’s Poetry 549
Monika Kocot
11 Grace Nichols 561
Pilar Sánchez Calle
12 F. T. Prince 573
Will May
13 Kathleen Raine 583
Glyn Pursglove
14 “Everything Except Justice Is An Impertinence”: The Poetry of Peter Riley 595
Peter Hughes
15 Anne Stevenson 607
Eleanor Spencer
16 Paula Meehan—Vocal Cartographies: Public and Private 619
Wolfgang Görtschacher
Index 629
