{"product_id":"poetry-geography-space-place-in-post-war-poetry-9781846318641","title":"Poetry \u0026 Geography: Space \u0026 Place in Post-war","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetry \u0026amp; Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Drawing impetus from the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, the fourteen essays collected here appraise the significance of ideas of space, place, and landscape for ‘mainstream’ and ‘experimental’ poets, post-romantics and neo-modernists alike. Cumulatively, the book’s varied articulations of poetry and geography sketch out a series of intersections between language and location, form and environment, sound and space. Poetry’s unique capacity to invigorate and expand our vocabularies of site and situation, of our manifold relations with the world outside us, is described and explored. Bringing together fresh, interdisciplinary readings of poets as diverse as Roy Fisher and R.S. Thomas, John Burnside and Thomas Kinsella, Jo Shapcott and Peter Riley, Alice Oswald and Ciaran Carson, Poetry \u0026amp; Geography sketches a topographical map of shared poetic terrains. It contributes to a fertile set of dialogues between literary studies and cultural geography in which the valences of space and place are open to processes of contestation and reimagining. This new collection of critical essays provides readers with a vital set of coordinates in a complex and evolving field. Key themes include: place and identity; literary cartographies; walking as trope and spatial practice; the poetics of edges, margins, and peripheries; landscape, language, and form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection, from general and magisterial introduction, to incisive and particularising chapters on well-known and lesser-known recent poets, maps poetry like a new geographer, relating rooted place to extensive space, national politics to global economies, bodily spatiality to ecological interrelatedness. Using a variety of recent theories about place and space, these visions of space and spaces never forget that poetic language itself is a way of taking up and holding positions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Sheppard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Poetry  Geography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeal Alexander and David Cooper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I Placing Selves: Identity, Location, Community\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 City of Change and Challenge: Liverpool in Paul Farley’s Poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles I. Armstrong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Mapping the Geographies of Hurt in Barry MacSweeney and S.J. Litherland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter Barry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Place under Pressure: Reading John Tripp’s Wales\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatthew Jarvis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 ‘Still linked to those others’: Landscape and Language in Post-war Welsh Poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKatie Gramich\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Roaring Amen: Charles Causley Speaks of Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrew Tate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II Spatial Practices: Walking, Witnessing, Mapping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 The Road Divides: Thomas Kinsella’s Urban Poetics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLucy Collins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 ‘I know this labyrinth so well’: Narrative Mappings in the Poetry of Ciaran Carson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaniel Weston\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 ‘Whitby is a statement’: Littoral Geographies in British Poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmy Cutler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 ‘Where lives converge’: Peter Riley and the Poetics of Place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeal Alexander\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Envisioning ‘the cubist fells’: Ways of Seeing in the Poetry of Norman Nicholson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Cooper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III Geopoetics: Landscape, Language, Form\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 ‘Wanderer, incomer, borderer\/ liar, mother of everything I see’: Jo Shapcott’s Engagement with Landscape,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArt and Poetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeryn Rees-Jones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 John Burnside: Poetry as the Space of Withdrawal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScott Brewster\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 ‘Water’s Soliloquy’: Soundscape and Environment in Alice Oswald’s Dart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter Howarth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14 Roy Fisher’s Spatial Prepositions and Other Little Words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter Robinson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360208650583,"sku":"9781846318641","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781846318641.jpg?v=1754126989","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/poetry-geography-space-place-in-post-war-poetry-9781846318641","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}