A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015: (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors ix Preface xvii Section 1 Introduction—1960–2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 1 1 Introduction—1960–2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 3 Wolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm Section 2 Contexts, Forms, Topics, and Movements 29 a. Institutions, Histories, Receptions 1 Some Institutions of the British and Irish (Sub)Fields of Poetry: Little Magazines, Publishers, Prizes, and Poetry in Translation 31 Wolfgang Görtschacher 2 Anthologies: Distortions and Corrections, Poetries, and Voices 63 David Kennedy 3 Minding the Trench: The Reception of British and Irish Poetry in America, 1960–2015 71 Daniel Bourne 4 Readers: Who Reads Modern Poetry? 87 Juha Virtanen b. Genre, Kind, Technique 1 Manifestos and Poetics/Poets on Writing 97 Daniel Weston 2 The Genres of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 107 Gareth Farmer 3 The Elegy 119 Stephen Regan 4 The Sonnet 129 David Fuller 5 Free Verse and Open Form 143 Lacy Rumsey 6 Satire 159 David Wheatley 7 The Traditional Short Lyric Poem in Britain and Ireland, 1960–2015 169 Tim Liardet and Jennifer Militello 8 (Post)Modern Lyric Poetry 179 Alex Pestell 9 The Long Poem After Pound 191 Will May c. Groupings, Themes 1 Generations 201 Robert Hampson 2 The Movement 213 David Malcolm 3 The Liverpool Poets 223 Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim 4 The British Poetry Revival 1960–1978 235 Robert Sheppard 5 Poets of Ulster 245 Martin Ryle 6 The Martian School: Toward a Poetics of Wonder 255 Małgorzata Grzegorzewska 7 Linguistically Innovative Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s 263 Scott Thurston 8 Concrete and Performance Poetry 273 Jerzy Jarniewicz 9 Performances of Technology as Compositional Practice in British and Irish Contemporary Poetry 283 John Sparrow 10 “Here to Stay”: Black British Poetry and the Post‐WWII United Kingdom 305 Bartosz Wójcik 11 Anglo‐Jewish Poetry 319 David Malcolm 12 Gay and Lesbian Poetry 329 Prudence Chamberlain 13 Women Poets in the British Isles 339 Marc Porée 14 Irish Women Poets 349 Monika Szuba 15 Religious Poetry, 1960–2015 359 Hugh Dunkerley 16 Love Poetry 371 Eleanor Spencer 17 Political Poetry 381 Ian C. Davidson and Jo Lindsay Walton 18 Radical Landscape Poetry in Scotland 393 Alan Riach 19 Coincidentia Oppositorum: Myth in Contemporary Poetry 403 Erik Martiny d. The Past and Other Countries 1 History and Poetry 417 Jerzy Jarniewicz 2 British and Irish Poets Abroad/in Exile 427 Glyn Pursglove Section 3 Poets and Poems: Canon, Off‐Canon, Non‐Canon 441 1 John Agard 443 Ralf Hertel 2 Eavan Boland 453 Peter Hühn 3 Paul Durcan 461 Jessika Köhler 4 James Fenton 473 David Malcolm 5 Bill Griffiths 485 Ian C. Davidson 6 Excluding Visions of Life in Poems by Thom Gunn 501 Tomasz Wiśniewski 7 “Now Put It Together”: Lee Harwood and the Gentle Art of Collage 511 Robert Sheppard 8 Listening to Words and Silence: The Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings 523 Jean Ward 9 “Forever in Excess”: Barry MacSweeney, Consumerism, and Popular Culture 535 Paul Batchelor 10 When Understanding Breaks in Waves: Voices and Messages in Edwin Morgan’s Poetry 549 Monika Kocot 11 Grace Nichols 561 Pilar Sánchez Calle 12 F. T. Prince 573 Will May 13 Kathleen Raine 583 Glyn Pursglove 14 “Everything Except Justice Is An Impertinence”: The Poetry of Peter Riley 595 Peter Hughes 15 Anne Stevenson 607 Eleanor Spencer 16 Paula Meehan—Vocal Cartographies: Public and Private 619 Wolfgang Görtschacher Index 629

About the Author :
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 Gdańsk. 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.Pomiędzy Festival of Literature and Theatre which has been held annually in Sopot, Poland, since 2010.