Contemporary Poetry

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130 contemporary poetry



  1. Linton Kwesi Johnson, in E. A. Markham (ed.), Hinterland:
    Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain (Newcastle:
    Bloodaxe, 1989 ), p. 253.

  2. Christian Habekost, Verbal Riddim: The Politics and Aesthetics of
    African-Caribbean Dub Poetry (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993 ), p. 2.

  3. Habekost, Verbal Riddim, p. 1.

  4. Markham, Hinterland, p. 21.

  5. Mutabaruka, ‘Dis Poem’. Available online at http://aalbc.
    com/authors/mutabaru.htm. Originally recorded on The
    Mystery Unfolds, LP (Newton, NJ: Shanachie Records, 1986 ).

  6. Kamwau Brathwaite, ‘Nation Language’, in History of the
    Voice (London: New Beacon Books, 1984 ), p. 13.

  7. Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hinterland, pp. 271 – 2. All subsequent
    references to this edition are given in the text. Originally
    recorded LP Making History ( 1984 ).

  8. Benjamin Zephaniah, City Psalms (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1992 ),
    p. 12. All subsequent references to this edition of Zephaniah’s
    poems are given in the text.

  9. Kathleen McCracken Gahern, ‘Masks and Voices: Dramatic
    Personas in the Poetry of Paul Durcan’, Canadian Journal of
    Irish Studies, 13. 1 ( 1987 ), 107 – 20 (p. 108 ).

  10. Paul Durcan, ‘The Beckett at the Gate’, in A Snail in My
    Prime: Selected Poems (London: Harvill Press, 1999 ), pp. 131 – 8
    (p. 131 ). All subsequent references to this edition of Durcan’s
    poems are given in the text.

  11. Paul Durcan, ‘It’s All About Forgetting Yourself: Interview
    with Paul Durcan by John Knowles’, Fortnight, 435 ( 2005 ),
    20 – 2.

  12. McCracken Gahern, ‘Masks and Voices’, pp. 111 – 12.

  13. Erik Martiny, ‘Demonic Forefather: Portraits of Samuel
    Beckett in the Poems of Paul Durcan’, Nordic Irish Studies, 5
    ( 2006 ), 149 – 56 (p. 150 ).

  14. Martiny, ‘Demonic Forefather’, p. 150.

  15. Don Paterson, Landing Light (London: Faber & Faber, 2003 )
    pp. 35 – 8. All subsequent references to this edition of Paterson’s
    poems are given in the text.

  16. Charles Altieri, The Art of Twentieth Century American Poetry:
    Modernism and After (London: Blackwell, 2006 ), p. 163.

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