Contemporary British Poetry and the City

Peter Barry, Kim Latham, Kim Latham

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English

Manchester University Press
28 December 2000

Poetry anthologies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Urban communities

Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, and so on) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance. It explores a range of contemporary poets who are concerned with the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Streetwise (literally) rather than ""meadow-wise"", some of these urban poets are already well-known, for example, Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, while others are writers whose work is now beginning to attract significant critical attention: W. N. Herbert, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson.

By: Peter Barry
Index by: Kim Latham, Kim Latham
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9780719055942
ISBN 10: 0719055946
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 28 December 2000
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MAPPING 1. Introduction 2. ‘The roads to hell’ 3. Three urban tropes 4. Writing the inner city LOCAL SPECIFICS 5. ‘North of the word’ or ‘Why, this is Hull’ 6. ‘The hard lyric’: Re-registering Liverpool poetry 7. ‘Take off your shoes in Kings Cross’: Envisioning London 8. ‘Birmingham’s what I think with’: Roy Fisher’s cities 9. ‘I remember when all these fields were factories’ Bibliography -- .

Peter Barry is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth