Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry write by Luke Roberts. This book was released on 2017-03-18. Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation only recovering towards the end of his life which was cut short by alcoholism. With close readings of MacSweeney alongside his contemporaries, precursors, and influences, including J.H. Prynne, Shelley, Jack Spicer, and Sylvia Plath, Luke Roberts offers a fresh introduction to the field of modern poetry. Richly detailed with archival and bibliographic research, this book recovers the social and political context of MacSweeney’s exciting, challenging, and controversial impact on modern and contemporary poetry.
A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015
A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 write by David Malcolm. This book was released on 2020-12-10. A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
British Literature in Transition, 1980–2000
British Literature in Transition, 1980–2000 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Literature in Transition, 1980–2000 write by Eileen Pollard. This book was released on 2018-12-20. British Literature in Transition, 1980–2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change. It traces the emergence and evolution of literary trends from 1980-2000.
Living in History
Living in History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living in History write by Luke Roberts. This book was released on 2024-06-30. Living in History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. [headline]Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to the advent of Thatcherism Challenging received ideas about the British Poetry Revival, Luke Roberts presents a new account of experimental poetry and literary activism. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and traditions, Living in History begins by examining the legacies of Empire and exile in the work of Kamau Brathwaite, J. H. Prynne, and poets associated with the Communist Party and the African National Congress. It then focuses on the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Denise Riley, Anna Mendelssohn and others, in the development of liberation struggles around gender, race and sexuality across the 1970s. Tracking the ambivalence between poetic ambition and political commitment, and how one sometimes interferes with the other, Luke Roberts troubles the exclusions of 'British Poetry' as a category and tests the claims made on behalf avant-garde and experimental poetics against the historical record. Bringing together both major and neglected authorships and offering extended close readings, fresh archival research and new contextual evidence, Living in History is an ambitious and exciting intervention in the field. [bio]Luke Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King's College London. He is the author of Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things (2017), which was shortlisted for the University English first book prize. His writing has appeared in ELH, Textual Practice, The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and elsewhere.
Poetry and Work
Poetry and Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetry and Work write by Jo Lindsay Walton. This book was released on 2019-11-16. Poetry and Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poetry and Work offers a timely and much-needed re-examination of the relationship between work and poetry. The volume questions how lines are drawn between work and non-work, how social, political, and technological upheavals transform the nature of work, how work appears or hides within poetry, and asks if poetry is work, or play, or something else completely. The book interrogates whether poetry and avant-garde and experimental writing can provide models for work that is less alienated and more free. In this major new collection, sixteen scholars and poets draw on a lively array of theory and philosophy, archival research, fresh readings, and personal reflection in order to consider work and poetry: the work in poetry and the work of poetry. Individual chapters address issues such as the many professions, occupations, and tasks of poets beyond and around writing; poetry’s special relationship with ‘craft’; work's relationship with gender, class, race, disability, and sexuality; how work gets recognised or rendered invisible in aesthetic production and beyond; the work of poetry and the work of political activism and organising; and the notion of poetry itself as a space where work and play can blur, and where postwork imaginaries can be nurtured and explored.
