Modernist Legacies

Modernist Legacies

Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today

Présentation | Table des matières

Présentation

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 des matières

• Introduction

  Smith, David Nowell (et al.)

• Warring Clans, Podsolized Ground: Language in Contemporary UK Poetry

  Middleton, Peter

• Skipping across the Pond: Interaction between American and British Poetries 1964–1970

  Fisher, Allen (et al.)

• New British Schools

  Huk, Romana

• “Who Am I to Say? How Little”: Anthony Barnett’s Citations Followed on

  Kalck, Xavier

• “Kinked Up Like It Wants to Bark”: Contemporary British Poetry at the Tomb of the Poète Maudit

  Perril, Simon

• The Atypicality of Jeff Hilson: Metrical Language and Modernist Pleasure

  Rumsey, Lacy

• Balsam Flex: Cassette Culture and Poetry

  Montgomery, Will

• Caroline Bergvall’s Poetics of the Infrathin

  Broqua, Vincent

• Transcultural Hybridity and Modernist Legacies: Observations on Late Twentieth- and Early Twenty-First-Century British Poetry

  Greaves, Sara R.

• Langwij a thi guhtr

  Smith, David Nowell

• Strikers with Poems

  Roberts, Luke

• Forms of Reproduction in Wendy Mulford’s Early Work

  Solomon, Samuel

• “Ill read ill said”: Faultlines in Contemporary Poetics as Ideology

  Milne, Drew