A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015

ISBN-13: 9781118843208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 656 str.

Wolfgang Gortschacher; David Malcolm

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Notes on Contributors ixPreface xviiSection 1 Introduction--1960-2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 11 Introduction--1960-2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 3Wolfgang Görtschacher and David MalcolmSection 2 Contexts, Forms, Topics, and Movements 29a. Institutions, Histories, Receptions1 Some Institutions of the British and Irish (Sub)Fields of Poetry: Little Magazines, Publishers, Prizes, and Poetry in Translation 31Wolfgang Görtschacher2 Anthologies: Distortions and Corrections, Poetries, and Voices 63David Kennedy3 Minding the Trench: The Reception of British and Irish Poetry in America, 1960-2015 71Daniel Bourne4 Readers: Who Reads Modern Poetry? 87Juha Virtanenb. Genre, Kind, Technique1 Manifestos and Poetics/Poets on Writing 97Daniel Weston2 The Genres of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 107Gareth Farmer3 The Elegy 119Stephen Regan4 The Sonnet 129David Fuller5 Free Verse and Open Form 143Lacy Rumsey6 Satire 159David Wheatley7 The Traditional Short Lyric Poem in Britain and Ireland, 1960-2015 169Tim Liardet and Jennifer Militello8 (Post)Modern Lyric Poetry 179Alex Pestell9 The Long Poem After Pound 191Will Mayc. Groupings, Themes1 Generations 201Robert Hampson2 The Movement 213David Malcolm3 The Liverpool Poets 223LudmiBa Gruszewska-Blaim4 The British Poetry Revival 1960-1978 235Robert Sheppard5 Poets of Ulster 245Martin Ryle6 The Martian School: Toward a Poetics of Wonder 255MaBgorzata Grzegorzewska7 Linguistically Innovative Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s 263Scott Thurston8 Concrete and Performance Poetry 273Jerzy Jarniewicz9 Performances of Technology as Compositional Practice in British and Irish Contemporary Poetry 283John Sparrow10 "Here to Stay": Black British Poetry and the Post-WWII United Kingdom 305Bartosz Wójcik11 Anglo-Jewish Poetry 319David Malcolm12 Gay and Lesbian Poetry 329Prudence Chamberlain13 Women Poets in the British Isles 339Marc Porée14 Irish Women Poets 349Monika Szuba15 Religious Poetry, 1960-2015 359Hugh Dunkerley16 Love Poetry 371Eleanor Spencer17 Political Poetry 381Ian C. Davidson and Jo Lindsay Walton18 Radical Landscape Poetry in Scotland 393Alan Riach19 Coincidentia Oppositorum: Myth in Contemporary Poetry 403Erik Martinyd. The Past and Other Countries1 History and Poetry 417Jerzy Jarniewicz2 British and Irish Poets Abroad/in Exile 427Glyn PursgloveSection 3 Poets and Poems: Canon, Off-Canon, Non-Canon 4411 John Agard 443Ralf Hertel2 Eavan Boland 453Peter Hühn3 Paul Durcan 461Jessika Köhler4 James Fenton 473David Malcolm5 Bill Griffiths 485Ian C. Davidson6 Excluding Visions of Life in Poems by Thom Gunn 501Tomasz Wisniewski7 "Now Put It Together": Lee Harwood and the Gentle Art of Collage 511Robert Sheppard8 Listening to Words and Silence: The Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings 523Jean Ward9 "Forever in Excess": Barry MacSweeney, Consumerism, and Popular Culture 535Paul Batchelor10 When Understanding Breaks in Waves: Voices and Messages in Edwin Morgan's Poetry 549Monika Kocot11 Grace Nichols 561Pilar Sánchez Calle12 F. T. Prince 573Will May13 Kathleen Raine 583Glyn Pursglove14 "Everything Except Justice Is An Impertinence": The Poetry of Peter Riley 595Peter Hughes15 Anne Stevenson 607Eleanor Spencer16 Paula Meehan--Vocal Cartographies: Public and Private 619Wolfgang GörtschacherIndex 629

O autorze

Wolfgang Görtschacher is Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg, where he has taught literary criticism and translation studies since the early 1990s. He has published widely on British poetry magazines, contemporary British and Irish literature, and translation studies. His translations of German poetry into English and English poetry into German have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is the owner-director of the small press Poetry Salzburg, editor of the little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review, co-editor of the academic journal Moderne Sprachen, and president of AAUTE (Austrian Association of University Teachers of English).David Malcolm is a professor of English at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He previously taught for twenty-eight years at the University of GdaDsk. He has published extensively on British and Irish fiction and poetry. His translations of Polish and German literature have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is co-organizer of the Between.Pomi'dzy Festival of Literature and Theatre which has been held annually in Sopot, Poland, since 2010.