Contemporary British and Irish Poetry An

This book provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry. It 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.

Sarah Broom is Research Fellow in English Literature at Massey University, New Zealand.

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

1

(9)

`Wanna yoo scruff': Class and Language

10

(36)

Tony Harrison

Tom Leonard

Don Paterson

`My tongue is full of old ideas': Race and Ethnicity

46

(29)

Benjamin Zephaniah

Jackie Kay

Moniza Alvi

Gender, Sex and Embodiment

75

(35)

Simon Armitage

Carol Ann Duffy

Grace Nichols

`Widdershins round the kirk-yaird': Gender, Sexuality and Nation

110

(32)

Eavan Boland

Gillian Clarke

Kathleen Jamie

David Kinloch

`A fusillade of question marks': Poetry and the Troubles in Northern Ireland

142

(39)

Seamus Heaney

Michael Longley

Ciaran Carson

`A rustle of echoes': Self, Subjectivity and Agency

181

(41)

David Dabydeen

Paul Muldoon

Denise Riley

The Tribes of Poetry

222

(40)

Tom Raworth

Geraldine Monk

Catherine Walsh

Peter Reading

Patience Agbabi

Select Bibliography

262

(11)

Index

273

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Contemporary British and Irish Poetry An Introduction

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