Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781403906748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str.

Sarah Broom

Opis

This book provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry. It covers work by poets from a wide range of ethnic and regional backgrounds and covers a broad range of poetic styles, including mainstream names like Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy alongside more marginal and experimental poets like Tom Raworth and Geraldine Monk.

Spis treści

Introduction.- 'Wanna yoo scruff': Class Politics: Tom Leonard, Tony Harrison, Don Paterson.- 'My tongue is full of old ideas': Race and Ethnicity: Benjamin Zephaniah, Jackie Kay, Moniza Alvi.- Gender, Sex and Embodiment: Simon Armitage, Grace Nichols, Carol Ann Duffy.- 'Widdershins round the kirk-yaird': Gender, Sexuality and Nation: Eavan Boland, Kathleen Jamie, Gillian Clarke, David Kinloch.- 'A fusillade of question marks': Poetry and the Troubles in Northern Ireland: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley; Ciaran Carson.- 'A rustle of echoes': Self, Subjectivity and Agency: David Dabydeen, Paul Muldoon, Denise Riley.- The Tribes of Poetry: Tom Raworth, Geraldine Monk, Catherine Walsh, Peter Reading, Patience Agbabi.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

SARAH BROOM, formerly Lecturer in English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford and at Oxford Brookes, has held a Research Fellowship in English Literature at Massey University, New Zealand. She has published numerous articles and reviews on contemporary British and Irish poetry.

Blurb

Contemporary British and Irish Poetry provides an engaging, stimulating and lively introduction to the subject. Sarah Broom covers poets from a broad range of ethnic and regional backgrounds and explores a wide variety of poetic styles, including well-known names like Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy alongside more experimental poets like Tom Raworth and Geraldine Monk. The book discusses all of the most compelling issues with which students, readers and writers of poetry are engaged today:
- class consciousness and economic divisions in society
- political conflict and violence
- gender, sex and embodiment, and the intersections of gender and nation
- race and ethnicity
- the self, subjectivity and agency
- the relationships between the so-called 'mainstream' of British and Irish poetry and 'experimental' and 'performance poetry' communities.

Including close readings of individual poems, and providing a sense of the parameters of the relevant critical and theoretical debates, this is an indispensable guide for all those interested in the work of some of Britain's and Ireland's most successful and exciting contemporary poets.