Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I The Story of the British Prose Poem; Chapter 2 'Hidden' Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry; Works Cited; Chapter 3 The British Prose Poem and 'Poetry' in Early Modernism; Works Cited; Chapter 4 The Flourishing of the Prose Poem in America and Britain; Works Cited; Part II The Early Narrators; Chapter 5 The Marvellous Clouds: Reflections on the Prose Poetry of Woolf, Baudelaire and Williams; 1; 2; 3; Works Cited
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Chapter 12 The Letter-Poem and Its Literary Affect: Mark Ford's 'The Death of Hart Crane'Works Cited; Chapter 13 'Immeasurable as One': Vahni Capildeo's Prose Poetics; Works Cited; Chapter 14 The Successful Prose Poem Leaves Behind Its Name; Works Cited; Part IV Other Voices, Other Forms; Chapter 15 'Man and Nature In and Out of Order': The Surrealist Prose Poetry of David Gascoyne; Works Cited; Chapter 16 Nonsense and Wonder: An Exploration of the Prose Poems of Jeremy Over; Works Cited; Chapter 17 Prose Poetry and the Spirit of Jazz; Works Cited; Chapter 18 Roy Fisher's Musicians
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Chapter 6 'I Grow More & More Poetic': Virginia Woolf and Prose PoetryAppendix Poetry Woolf (I Grow More & More Poetic); Works Cited; Chapter 7 James Joyce and the Prose Poem; Works Cited; Chapter 8 T.S. Eliot's Prose (Poetry); Works Cited; Chapter 9 A Weakening Syntax: How It Is with Samuel Beckett's Prose Poetry; Works Cited; Part III By Name or by Nature?; Chapter 10 Questioning the Prose Poem: Thoughts on Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns; What Is a Prose Poem?; Works Cited; Chapter 11 'I Went Disguised in It': Re-evaluating Seamus Heaney's Stations; Works Cited
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Works CitedPart V Thinking Back, Writing Forward; Chapter 19 Wrestling with Angels: The Pedagogy of the Prose Poem; Naïveté; Talking About What It Is Not; Openness; Talking About What It Is; And What It Can Be; Experience; Works Cited; Chapter 20 Life, Death and the Prose Poem; Works Cited; Index
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This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem's unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity. The essays cover the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries exploring why this form is particularly suited to the modern age and yet can still be problematic for publishers, booksellers and scholars. Refreshing perspectives are given on the Romantics, Modernists and Post-Modernists, among them Woolf, Beckett and Eliot as well as more recent poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Over and Vahni Capildeo. British Prose Poetry moves from a contextual overview of the genre's early volatile and fluctuating status, through to crucial examples of prose poetry written by established Modernist, surrealist and contemporary writers. Key questions around boundaries are discussed more generally in terms of race, class and gender. The British prose poem's international heritage, influences and influence are explored throughout as an intrinsic part of its current renaissance.