The first critical study of post-Holocaust poetry in Britain.Under the umbrella term 'Holocaust poetry', this book argues that distinctions need to be made between the writing of Holocaust survivors and those who were not involved in the events of 1933 to 1945. This study focuses on the post-Holocaust writers Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes, while also stressing the links between them and the Holocaust poetry of Paul Celan, Miklos Radnoti, Primo Levi and Janos Pilinszky.Developing his theory of 'awkwardness' Antony Rowland argues that post-Holocaust poetry can play...
The first critical study of post-Holocaust poetry in Britain.Under the umbrella term 'Holocaust poetry', this book argues that distinctions need to be...
M is the third collection from Antony Rowland, Professor of Literary Studies in English at the University of Salford, whose work has been compared with poets as disparate as John Ashbery and Ezra Pound. Jeffrey Wainwright has described his poetry as "significant and powerful", and nowhere is this more apparent than in M, an ode to Manchester in the present moment and to the world it finds itself in, awash with the movement of peoples, cultures, politics and words. The central sequence in M ('Manchester') responds to the murder in 2013 of Kieran Crump-Raiswell in Whalley Range, and tackles...
M is the third collection from Antony Rowland, Professor of Literary Studies in English at the University of Salford, whose work has been compared wit...
