Sarah Broom

Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137113672
• Artikelnr.: 62945100

Autorenporträt

SARAH BROOM, formerly Lecturer in English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford and at Oxford Brookes, has held a Research Fellowship in English Literature at Massey University, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'Wanna yoo scruff': Class Politics: Tom Leonard
Tony Harrison
Don Paterson 'My tongue is full of old ideas': Race and Ethnicity: Benjamin Zephaniah
Jackie Kay
Moniza Alvi Gender
Sex and Embodiment: Simon Armitage
Grace Nichols
Carol Ann Duffy 'Widdershins round the kirk-yaird': Gender
Sexuality and Nation: Eavan Boland
Kathleen Jamie
Gillian Clarke
David Kinloch 'A fusillade of question marks': Poetry and the Troubles in Northern Ireland: Seamus Heaney
Michael 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 Select Bibliography Index.