TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Nerys
TI  - Contemporary Poetry
T2  - Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGL
SN  - 9780748638840
AV  - PR612 .W55 2011eb
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - English poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Chronology --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Lyric Subjects --; Chapter 2 Politics and Poetics --; Chapter 3 Performance and the Poem --; Chapter 4 Environment and Space --; Chapter 5 Dialects, Idiolects and Multilingual Poetries --; Conclusion --; Student Resources --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Discussing the work of more than 60 poets from the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, from Sujata Bhatt to M. Philip NourbeSe and from John Ashbery to Eliot Weinberger, Nerys Williams guides students through the key ideas and movements in the study of poetry today. With reference to original manifestos and web-based experiments, as well as the role of information culture in shaping and distributing poetry globally this book engages with the full vitality of the contemporary poetry scene.Key FeaturesWide topic range - from performance to politics, from lyric expression to ecopoetics and from multilingual poetries to electronic writing - enables provocative thematic links to be madeDiscussion of global Englishes, dialects and idiolects aimed at those studying poetry on postcolonial literature and contemporary poetics coursesContemporary relevance: relates poetry to reporting on global conflict, including the impact of the Iraq WarStudent resources include a chronology, web resources, a glossary, questions for discussion and a guide to further reading
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748646036
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646036
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748646036/original
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