Contemporary British poetry and the city

By: Peter Barry, Kim Latham

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Paperback | 28 December 2000

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Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include:
Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns. Includes 'loco-specific' chapters, on cities including Hull, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on 'post-industrial' cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee.

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"Barry's provocative study is a "must-read because he combines penetrating critical and historical perspectives with great skill." --"Choice

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Acknowledgements	p. x
Mapping
Introduction	p. 3
Poetry's occlusion of the urban	p. 3
Linguistic pastoralism	p. 6
Cities in process	p. 8
Mapping the 'zones' of contemporary poetry	p. 11
Women poets and the city--Denise Riley	p. 16
'The roads to hell'	p. 23
Thinking with cities	p. 23
Dissolving the urban?	p. 30
Poetry and the urban dissolve--Paul Farley	p. 36
Moral anxieties and the urban dissolve	p. 39
Three urban tropes	p. 45
Urban 'double visioning'	p. 45
'Setting' and 'geography'	p. 48
Chronotopic approaches	p. 52
Coping with chronotopes--Bill Griffiths's The Book of Split Cities	p. 57
Writing the inner city	p. 61
Ken Edwards, 'Drumming'	p. 62
Barry MacSweeney, Hellhound Memos	p. 67
John Barnie, The City	p. 77
Peter Reading, Perduta Gente	p. 83
Ken Smith, Fox Running and 'The London Poems'	p. 88
Local Specifics
'North of the word' or 'Why, this is Hull'	p. 105
Peter Didsbury	p. 107
Sean O'Brien	p. 117
Douglas Houston	p. 125
'The hard lyric': re-registering Liverpool poetry	p. 137
Roger McGough	p. 139
Brian Patten	p. 142
Adrian Henri	p. 143
Levi Tafari	p. 146
Matt Simpson	p. 150
Deryn Rees-Jones	p. 155
Robert Hampson	p. 159
'Take off your shoes in King's Cross': envisioning London	p. 165
Topographical epics	p. 165
The muck-rake: Iain Sinclair's Lud Heat	p. 169
Lud Heat and Sinclair's later work	p. 175
The topological shovel: Allen Fisher's Place	p. 179
The sky scrape: Aidan Dun's Vale Royal	p. 186
'Birmingham's what I think with': Roy Fisher's cities	p. 193
Roy Fisher and the fulcrum between 'mainstream' and 'margins'	p. 193
Fisher's composite urban epic	p. 196
Reading 'Six Texts'	p. 202
'I remember when all these fields were factories': writing the vanishing city	p. 223
Ciaran Carson, Belfast Confetti	p. 226
Edwin Morgan, 'Glasgow Sonnets'	p. 232
W. N. Herbert	p. 240
Select bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 247
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