Modernist legacies : trends and faultlines in British poetry today

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    • Lang, Abigail
    • Nowell Smith, David

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Modernist legacies : trends and faultlines in British poetry today

edited by Abigail Lang and David Nowell Smith

(Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

1st ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these poets' connections with their Modernist predecessors.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • David Nowell Smith and Abigail Lang PART I: HISTORIES SINCE MODERNISM 1. Warring Clans, Podsolized Ground: Language in Contemporary UK Poetry
  • Peter Middleton 2. Skipping Across the Pond: Interaction between American and British Poetries, 1964-1970
  • Allen Fisher and Robert Hampson 3. New British Schools
  • Romana Huk PART II: THE MODERNIST LEGACY 4. "Who am I to say? How little": Anthony Barnett's Citations Followed On
  • Xavier Kalck 5. "Kinked up like it wants to bark": Contemporary British Poetry at the Tomb of the Poete Maudit
  • Simon Perril 6. The Atypicality of Jeff Hilson: Metrical Language and Modernist Pleasure
  • Lacy Rumsey 7. Balsam Flex: Cassette Culture and Poetry
  • Will Montgomery 8. Caroline Bergvall's Poetics of the Infrathin
  • Vincent Broqua PART III: POETICAL AND POLITICAL COMMITMENTS 9. Transcultural Hybridity and Modernist Legacies: Observations on Late Twentieth and Early Twenty First Century British Poetry
  • Sara Greaves 10. Langwij a thi guhtr
  • David Nowell Smith 11. Strikers with Poems
  • Luke Roberts 12. Forms of Reproduction in Wendy Mulford's Early Work
  • Samuel Solomon 13. "Ill read ill said": Faultlines in Contemporary Poetics as Ideology
  • Drew Milne Further Reading: 99 poets

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