| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) |
| Contents |
Form, historical crisis and poetry's hope in George Szirtes's 'Metro' / John Sears -- Persona, trauma and survival in Louise Glück's postmodern, mythic, twenty-first-century 'October' / Mary Kate Azcuy -- Hern: the catastrophe of lyric in John Burnside / Scott Brewster -- 'In a ghostly pool of blood/a crumpled phantom hugged the mud': spectropoetic presentations of Bloody Sunday and the crisis of Northern Ireland / Ruben Moi -- 'The given note': traditional music, crisis and the poetry of Seamus Heaney / Seán Crosson -- 'Crisis first-hand': Seamus Heaney before and after the ceasefire / Stephen Regan -- The mundane and the monstrous: everyday epiphanies in Northern Irish poetry / Charles I. Armstrong -- 'The memorial to all of them': landscape and the Holocaust in the poetry of Michael Longley / Brendan Corcoran -- 'Toward a brink': the poetry of Kathleen Jamie and environmental crisis / Lucy Collins -- Sounding the landscape: dis-placement in the poetry of Alice Oswald / Janne Stigen Drangsholt -- Place, narrative and crisis in the long poems of Paul Muldoon / Anne Karhio -- Paul Muldoon: critical judgement, the crisis poem, and the ethics of voice / Guinn Batten -- Displacing the crisis: new British poetry, cultural memory and the role of the intellectual / Eva Mueller-Zettelmann -- The body of text meets the body as text: staging (I)dentity in the work of SuAndi and Lemn Sissay / Deirdre Osborne |
| Summary |
This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society. The essays included discuss a range of issues from the holocaust, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and their aftermath and the war on terror to the ecological crisis, poetry's relationship to place and questions of cultural and national identity. What are the means available to poetry to address the various crises it faces, and how can both poets and critics meet the challenges posed by society and the literary community? How can poetry justify its own role as a meaningful form of cultural and artistic practice? The volume focuses on poetry from Britain, Ireland and the US, and many of the poets discussed in this volume are among the most acclaimed contemporary writers, including for example Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Louise Gluck and Alice Oswald |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Crises in literature.
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Crises in literature
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English poetry
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Literature and history
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Politics and literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Karhio, Anne, 1975-
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Crosson, Seán
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Armstrong, Charles I., 1969-
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| ISBN |
9780230306097 |
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0230306098 |
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1283623404 |
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9781283623407 |
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