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A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry 

With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. 

Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book:  

  • Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry 
  • Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry 
  • Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets 
  • Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context   

Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors. 

Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xvii
Section 1 Introduction-1960-2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse 1(28)
1 Introduction-1960-2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse
3(26)
Wolfgang Gortschacher
David Malcolm
Section 2 Contexts, Forms, Topics, and Movements 29(412)
a Institutions, Histories, Receptions
1 Some Institutions of the British and Irish (Sub)Fields of Poetry: Little Magazines, Publishers, Prizes, and Poetry in Translation
31(32)
Wolfgang Gortschacher
2 Anthologies: Distortions and Corrections, Poetries, and Voices
63(8)
David Kennedy
3 Minding the Trench: The Reception of British and Irish Poetry in America, 1960-2015
71(16)
Daniel Bourne
4 Readers: Who Reads Modern Poetry?
87(10)
Juha Virtanen
b Genre, Kind, Technique
1 Manifestos and Poetics/Poets on Writing
97(10)
Daniel Weston
2 The Genres of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
107(12)
Gareth Farmer
3 The Elegy
119(10)
Stephen Regan
4 The Sonnet
129(14)
David Fuller
5 Free Verse and Open Form
143(16)
Lacy Rumsey
6 Satire
159(10)
David Wheatley
7 The Traditional Short Lyric Poem in Britain and Ireland, 1960-2015
169(10)
Tim Liardet
Jennifer Militello
8 (Post)Modern Lyric Poetry
179(12)
Alex Pestell
9 The Long Poem After Pound
191(10)
Will May
c Groupings, Themes
1 Generations
201(12)
Robert Hampson
2 The Movement
213(10)
David Malcolm
3 The Liverpool Poets
223(12)
Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim
4 The British Poetry Revival 1960-1978
235(10)
Robert Sheppard
5 Poets of Ulster
245(10)
Martin Ryle
6 The Martian School: Toward a Poetics of Wonder
255(8)
Malgorzata Grzegorzewska
7 Linguistically Innovative Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s
263(10)
Scott Thurston
8 Concrete and Performance Poetry
273(10)
Jerzy Jarniewicz
9 Performances of Technology as Compositional Practice in British and Irish Contemporary Poetry
283(22)
John Sparrow
10 "Here to Stay": Black British Poetry and the Post-WWII United Kingdom
305(14)
Bartosz Wojcik
11 Anglo-Jewish Poetry
319(10)
David Malcolm
12 Gay and Lesbian Poetry
329(10)
Prudence Chamberlain
13 Women Poets in the British Isles
339(10)
Marc Poree
14 Irish Women Poets
349(10)
Monika Szuba
15 Religious Poetry, 1960-2015
359(12)
Hugh Dunkerley
16 Love Poetry
371(10)
Eleanor Spencer
17 Political Poetry
381(12)
Ian C. Davidson
Jo Lindsay Walton
18 Radical Landscape Poetry in Scotland
393(10)
Alan Riach
19 Coincidentia Oppositorum: Myth in Contemporary Poetry
403(14)
Erik Martiny
d The Past and Other Countries
1 History and Poetry
417(10)
Jerzy Jarniewicz
2 British and Irish Poets Abroad/in Exile
427(16)
Glyn Pursglove
Section 3 Poets and Poems: Canon, Off-Canon, Non-Canon 441(188)
1 John Agard
443(10)
Ralf Hertel
2 Eavan Boland
453(8)
Peter Huhn
3 Paul Durcan
461(12)
Jessika Kohler
4 James Fenton
473(12)
David Malcolm
5 Bill Griffiths
485(16)
Ian C. Davidson
6 Excluding Visions of Life in Poems by Thom Gunn
501(10)
Tomasz Wisniewski
7 "Now Put It Together": Lee Harwood and the Gentle Art of Collage
511(12)
Robert Sheppard
8 Listening to Words and Silence: The Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings
523(12)
Jean Ward
9 "Forever in Excess": Barry MacSweeney, Consumerism, and Popular Culture
535(14)
Paul Batchelor
10 When Understanding Breaks in Waves: Voices and Messages in Edwin Morgan's Poetry
549(12)
Monika Kocot
11 Grace Nichols
561(12)
Pilar Sanchez Calle
12 F.T. Prince
573(10)
Will May
13 Kathleen Raine
583(12)
Glyn Pursglove
14 "Everything Except Justice Is An Impertinence": The Poetry of Peter Riley
595(12)
Peter Hughes
15 Anne Stevenson
607(12)
Eleanor Spencer
16 Paula Meehan-Vocal Cartographies: Public and Private
619(10)
Wolfgang Gortschacher
Index 629
Wolfgang Görtschacher is Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg, where he has taught literary criticism and translation studies since the early 1990s. He has published widely on British poetry magazines, contemporary British and Irish literature, and translation studies. His translations of German poetry into English and English poetry into German have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is the owner-director of the small press Poetry Salzburg, editor of the little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review, co-editor of the academic journal Moderne Sprachen, and president of AAUTE (Austrian Association of University Teachers of English).



David Malcolm is a professor of English at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He previously taught for twenty-eight years at the University of Gdask. He has published extensively on British and Irish fiction and poetry. His translations of Polish and German literature have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is co-organizer of the Between.Pomidzy Festival of Literature and Theatre which has been held annually in Sopot, Poland, since 2010.