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Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories have stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance by exploring work by a range of poets who reflect the contemporary urban scene.

Table of Contents

MAPPING
1. Introduction
2. ‘The roads to hell’
3. Three urban tropes
4. Writing the inner city
LOCAL SPECIFICS
5. ‘North of the word’ or ‘Why, this is Hull’
6. ‘The hard lyric’: Re-registering Liverpool poetry
7. ‘Take off your shoes in Kings Cross’: Envisioning London
8. ‘Birmingham’s what I think with’: Roy Fisher’s cities
9. ‘I remember when all these fields were factories’
Bibliography

Contemporary British Poetry and the City

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 12/28/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719055942, 978-0719055942
      ISBN10: 0719055946

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories have stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance by exploring work by a range of poets who reflect the contemporary urban scene.

      Table of Contents

      MAPPING
      1. Introduction
      2. ‘The roads to hell’
      3. Three urban tropes
      4. Writing the inner city
      LOCAL SPECIFICS
      5. ‘North of the word’ or ‘Why, this is Hull’
      6. ‘The hard lyric’: Re-registering Liverpool poetry
      7. ‘Take off your shoes in Kings Cross’: Envisioning London
      8. ‘Birmingham’s what I think with’: Roy Fisher’s cities
      9. ‘I remember when all these fields were factories’
      Bibliography

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