Contemporary British and Irish poetry : an introduction / Sarah Broom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broom, Sarah, 1972-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English poetry--Irish authors.

Northern Ireland--In literature.

Northern Ireland.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

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 such as Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy alongside more experimental poets such as 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.

Contents:

1 'Wanna yoo scruff': Class and Language / Tony Harrison, Tom Leonard, Don Paterson 10

2 'My tongue is full of old ideas': Race and Ethnicity / Benjamin Zephaniah, Jackie Kay, Moniza Alvi 46

3 Gender, Sex and Embodiment / Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Grace Nichols 75

4 'Widdershins round the kirk-yaird': Gender, Sexuality and Nation / Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, Kathleen Jamie, David Kinloch 110

5 'A fusillade of question marks': Poetry and the Troubles in Northern Ireland / Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Ciaran Carson 142

6 'A rustle of echoes': Self, Subjectivity and Agency / David Dabydeen, Paul Muldoon, Denise Riley 181

7 The Tribes of Poetry / Tom Raworth, Geraldine Monk, Catherine Walsh, Peter Reading, Patience Agbabi 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-272) and index.

ISBN:

1403906742

1403906750

OCLC:

60856201

Publisher Number:

9781403906748 (hbk.)

9781403906755 (pbk.)