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Contemporary British And Irish Poetry »
Authors: Sarah Broom
ISBN-13: 9781403906755, ISBN-10: 1403906750
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Sarah Broom
Sarah Broom is Research Fellow in English Literature at Massey University, New Zealand.
Book Synopsis
This book provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry. It covers work by poets from a wide range of ethnic and regional backgrounds and covers a broad range of poetic styles, including mainstream names like Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy alongside more marginal and experimental poets like Tom Raworth and Geraldine Monk.
Table of Contents
| 1 | 'Wanna yoo scruff' : class and language | 10 |
| 2 | 'My tongue is full of old ideas' : race and ethnicity | 46 |
| 3 | Gender, sex and embodiment | 75 |
| 4 | 'Widdershins round the kirk-yaird' : gender, sexuality and nation | 110 |
| 5 | 'A fusillade of question marks' : poetry and the troubles in Northern Ireland | 142 |
| 6 | 'A rustle of echoes' : self, subjectivity and agency | 181 |
| 7 | The tribes of poetry | 222 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism English Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism Irish Literature
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism Poetry - Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism English LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism Irish LiteratureFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism Poetry - Literary Criticism
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