Luke Roberts

Living in History

Poetry in Britain, 1945-1979

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the relationship between radical poetry and radical politics from the formation of the welfare state to the advent of Thatcherism

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399519861
• ISBN-10: 1399519867
• Artikelnr.: 74290751

Autorenporträt

Luke Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King's College London. He is the author of Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things (2017), which was nominated for the University English first book prize. His writing has appeared in ELH, Textual Practice , The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and elsewhere.He is co-editor, with Sam Ladkin, of the work of Mark Hyatt, including So Much For Life: Selected Poems (2023), and the novel Love, Leda (2023). He also edited Barry MacSweeney, Desire Lines: Unselected Poems: 1966-2000 (2018), and was co-editor of Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer (2014).His books of poetry include Home Radio (2021), and his poems have been published in Chicago Review, Ludd Gang, Cambridge Literary Review and many other little magazines. With Amy Tobin he edits the small press Distance No Object.