Contemporary Poetry

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Contents Series Preface ix Acknowledgements x Chronology xii Introduction 1 ‘New, Newer and Newest’ Poetry 2 Poetics? 4 Before t ...

vi contemporary poetry Chapter 2 Politics and Poetics 58 Founding Propositions: Politics and Post-World War II Poetry 59 A Day i ...

contents vii Travelogue from the Regional to the Global: Robert Minhinnick and Lorna Goodison 154 Ecopoetics and the Future 157 ...

viii contemporary poetry Student Resources Electronic Resources Questions for Discussion Glossary Poetry Anthologies Guide to F ...

Series Preface The study of English literature in the early twenty-fi rst century is host to an exhilarating range of critical a ...

Acknowledgements Firstly, my immense gratitude to both editors of the series, Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley, for their origi ...

acknowledgements xi enabled a space at Berkeley where the fi nal tidying up of the manuscript took place. I appreciate their tho ...

Chronology Date Historical Events Literary Events 1950 President Truman announces that the Charles Olson, ‘Projective USA is to ...

chronology xiii Date Historical Events Literary Events 1956 The Hungarian Revolution is crushed Allen Ginsberg, Howl and by the ...

xiv contemporary poetry Date Historical Events Literary Events 1964 The Civil Rights Act becomes law in Ted Berrigan, Sonnets; t ...

chronology xv Date Historical Events Literary Events candidate Hubert Humphrey; Spiro Agnew becomes Vice President; Soviet force ...

xvi contemporary poetry Date Historical Events Literary Events 1973 The Yom Kippur War fought Mutabaruka, Outcry; between Israel ...

chronology xvii Date Historical Events Literary Events 1976 Democrat Jimmy Carter defeats Republican President Gerald Ford in th ...

xviii contemporary poetry Date Historical Events Literary Events 1980 Republican candidate Ronald Reagan Lyn Hejinian, My Life d ...

chronology xix Date Historical Events Literary Events 1984 The Miners’ Strike begins in the UK, Grace Nichols, The Fat it ends w ...