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Contemporary British and Irish poetry : an introduction
- Title
- Contemporary British and Irish poetry : an introduction / Sarah Broom.
- Author
- Broom, Sarah, 1972-2013.
- Publication
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- x, 278 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Sarah Broom provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry. The book 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. Contemporary British and Irish Poetry tackles the most compelling and contentious issues facing poetry today.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-272) and index.
- Contents
- 'Wanna yoo scruff' : class and language, Tony Harrison, Tom Leonard, Don Paterson -- 'My tongue is full of old ideas' : race and ethnicity, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jackie Kay, Moniza Alvi -- Gender, sex and embodiment, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Grace Nichols -- 'Widdershins round the kirk-yaird' : gender, sexuality and nation, Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, Kathleen Jamie, David Kinloch -- 'A fusillade of question marks' : poetry and the troubles in Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney, Micheal Longley, Ciaran Carson -- 'A rustle of echoes' : self, subjectivity and agency, David Dabydeen, Paul Muldoon, Denise Riley -- The tribes of poetry, Tom Raworth, Geraldine Monk, Catherine Walsh, Peter Reading, Patience Agbabi.
- Call Number
- JFD 06-3475
- ISBN
- 9781403906748
- 1403906742
- 9781403906755
- 1403906750
- LCCN
- 2005049316
- OCLC
- 60856201
- Author
- Broom, Sarah, 1972-2013.
- Title
- Contemporary British and Irish poetry : an introduction / Sarah Broom.
- Imprint
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-272) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFD 06-3475