British Prose Poetry: The Poems Without Lines

ISBN-13: 9783319778624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 340 str.

Jane Monson

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This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. British Prose Poetry moves from a contextual overview of the genre's early volatile and fluctuating status, through to crucial examples of prose poetry written by established Modernist, surrealist and contemporary writers.

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Introduction                                                                                          Jane Monson                 1

 

Part I: The Story of the British Prose Poem

 

1 “Hidden” Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry                         David Caddy

2  The British Prose Poem and “Poetry” in Early Modernism             Margueritte S. Murphy

3  The Flourishing of the Prose Poem in America and Britain            Robert Vas Dias

 

Part II: The Early Narrators

 

4  The Marvellous Clouds:

Reflections on the Prose Poetry of Woolf, Baudelaire and Williams         Michael O’Neill

5 “I grow more & more poetic”: Virginia Woolf and Prose Poetry     Jane Goldman

6  James Joyce and the Prose Poem                                                   Michel Delville
7  T.S. Eliot’s Prose (Poetry)                                                               Vidyan Ravinthiran

8  A Weakening Syntax: How It Is with Samuel Beckett’s Prose Poetry  Scott Annett

           

Part III: By Name or by Nature?

 

9      Questioning the Prose Poem:

Thoughts on Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns                                        Alan Wall

10  “I went disguised in it”: Re-Evaluating Seamus Heaney’s Stations           Andy Brown

11  The Letter-Poem and its Literary Affect: Mark Ford’s

     “The Death of Hart Crane”                                                           Anthony Caleshu

12  “Immeasurable as one”: Vahni Capildeo’s Prose Poetics           Jeremy Noel-Tod

13  The Successful Prose Poem Leaves Behind its Name                  Owen Bullock

           

Part IV: Other Voices, Other Forms

 

14  “Man and Nature In and Out of Order”:

         The Surrealist Prose Poetry of David Gascoyne                            Luke Kennard

15    Nonsense and Wonder:

An Exploration of the Prose Poems of Jeremy Over                                 Ian Seed

16 Prose Poetry and the Spirit of Jazz                                                Nikki Santilli

17 Roy Fisher’s Five Musicians                                                         Peter Robinson

             

Part V: Thinking Back, Writing Forward

 

18    Wrestling With Angels:

The Pedagogy of the Prose Poem                                                            Patricia Debney

19    Life, Death and the Prose Poem                                                  Michael Rosen

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Jane Monson is a Mentor at the University of Cambridge, UK. She was previously Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is the editor of This Line is not for Turning (2011), an anthology of contemporary British prose poetry. Her poetry collections include Speaking Without Tongues (2010) and The Shared Surface (2013). 

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This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem’s unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity. The essays cover the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries exploring why this form is particularly suited to the modern age and yet can still be problematic for publishers, booksellers and scholars. Refreshing perspectives are given on the Romantics, Modernists and Post-Modernists, among them Woolf, Beckett and Eliot as well as more recent poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Over and Vahni Capildeo. British Prose Poetry moves from a contextual overview of the genre’s early volatile and fluctuating status, through to crucial examples of prose poetry written by established Modernist, surrealist and contemporary writers. Key questions around boundaries are discussed more generally in terms of race, class and gender. The British prose poem’s international heritage, influences and influence are explored throughout as an intrinsic part of its current renaissance.