Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-272) and index.
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'Wanna yoo scruff' : class and language, Tony Harrison, Tom Leonard, Don Paterson -- 'My tongue is full of old ideas' : race and ethnicity, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jackie Kay, Moniza Alvi -- Gender, sex and embodiment, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Grace Nichols -- 'Widdershins round the kirk-yaird' : gender, sexuality and nation, Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, Kathleen Jamie, David Kinloch -- 'A fusillade of question marks' : poetry and the troubles in Northern Ireland, Seamus Heaney, Micheal Longley, Ciaran Carson -- 'A rustle of echoes' : self, subjectivity and agency, David Dabydeen, Paul Muldoon, Denise Riley -- The tribes of poetry, Tom Raworth, Geraldine Monk, Catherine Walsh, Peter Reading, Patience Agbabi.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Sarah Broom provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry. The book covers work by poets from a wide range of ethnic and regional backgrounds and covers a broad range of poetic styles, including mainstream names like Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy alongside more marginal and experimental poets like Tom Raworth and Geraldine Monk. Contemporary British and Irish Poetry tackles the most compelling and contentious issues facing poetry today.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
English poetry-- 21st century-- History and criticism.
Irish poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Irish poetry-- 21st century-- History and criticism.
Irlande dans la littérature.
Irlande du Nord dans la littérature.
Poésie anglaise-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Poésie anglaise-- 21e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Poésie irlandaise (anglaise)-- Histoire et critique.