Other British and Irish poetry since 1970 9780819522412, 0819522414, 9780819522580, 0819522589, 9780585374192
When most Americans think of contemporary British poetry, they think of such mainstream poets as Ted Hughes, Philip Lark
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Table of contents :
Content: John Agard --
Half-caste --
Palm Tree King --
Listen Mr. Oxford Don --
Tony Baker --
armillaria mellea --
A Pavane on Mr. Wray's Locations --
le passage (Morbihan) --
Anthony Barnett --
Music of the Spheres --
Turbulence and Tongue --
Critique --
Richard Caddel --
Against Numerology --
For Tom --
Cris Cheek --
Rollercoaster --
Thomas A. Clark --
Five Poems: "as I walked out early" --
Five Poems: "our boat touches the bank" --
Five poems: "a blessing on the house" --
Five Poems: "sit for a while on a stone" --
Five Poems: "the shadow extends the tree" --
Bob Cobbing --
from Beethoven Today --
Hymn to the Sacred Mushroom --
from Processual Four --
from Prosexual --
Bird Bee --
Brian Coffey --
The Prayers --
Kelvin Corcoran --
Music of the Altai Mountains --
When Suzy Was --
In the Red Book --
Andrew Crozier --
Loopy Dupes --
Driftwood and Seacoal --
The Heifer --
Fred D'Aguiar --
Mama Dot --
Obeah Mama Dot (her remedies) --
Mama Dot Warns Against an Easter Rising --
Airy Hall Iconography --
Sound Bite --
Langston --
An English Sampler --
Ken Edwards --
Five Nocturnes, after Derek Jarman --
Good Science --
from 3600 Weekends: Lexically --
from 3600 Weekends: Provisionally --
from 3600 Weekends: Unconsciously --
Peter Finch --
Scaring Hens --
Reds in the Bed --
Marks The English Left On The Map --
How Callum Innes Paints --
Why Do You Want To Be English? --
Allen Fisher --
African Boog --
Birdland --
from Stepping Out: Stepping Out: 1 --
from Stepping Out: Progressions of Spacetime: 1 --
from Stepping Out: Rims of Distinction: 1 --
from Stepping Out: Stepping Out: 2 --
from Emergent Manner: Machynlleth --
from Emergent Manner: The Diary Theme --
from Emergent Manner: Murder One --
from Emergent Manner: The Ditchley Portrait --
Roy Fisher --
from The Cut Pages --
The Burning Graves at Netherton --
Rules and Ranges for Ian Tyson --
Veronica Forrest-Thomson --
Richard II --
Lemon and Rosemary --
Ulli Freer --
TM --
from Dents --
Harry Gilonis --
Song 9 --
an answer to Herrick --
orange birch bolete (Leccinum versipelle) from Forty Fungi --
Song for Annie --
Jonathan Griffin --
Venerating Senses Save Us --
One's Country --
The Emperor --
Night Sky Hiss --
Bill Griffiths --
For P-Celtic: found text from Machen --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Fragment 1 --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Fragment 4 --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Shepherd's Calendar --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Fragment 9 --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Fragment 11 --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Fragment 12 --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Fragment 13 --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Fragment 18 --
from Building: The New London Hospital: Shepherd's Calendar cont'd --
The Ship --
South Song --
Alan Halsey --
Device: One Law for the Lion & the Fox --
from A Robin Hood Book: XXI-XXIV --
Device: Winter --
Lee Harwood --
A Poem for Writers --
Czech Dream --
Michael Haslam --
from Continual Song: 01/84 --
from Continual Song: 30/55 --
from Continual Song: No Bloody Matter (43/42) --
from Continual Song: 84/01 --
Randolph Healy --
Primula veris --
Mutability Checkers --
The Size of This Universe --
John James --
Bye Bye Blackbird --
Sister Midnight --
Shakin All Over --
Idyl --
Amryl Johnson --
from Rainbow Dragon Trilogy: Oil on Troubled Waters (The People's Calypso) --
Linton Kwesi Johnson --
Mi Revalueshanary Fren --
Tom Leonard --
100 Differences Between Poetry and Prose --
song --
The Evidence --
opting for early retirement --
First Poster Poem against the Criminal Injustice Bill --
Tony Lopez --
A Path Marked with Breadcrumbs --
No Transport --
from Assembly Point D --
Rob MacKenzie --
Like Pornography --
Blue Sky in Morning --
square --
Category Mistakes in Biochemistry --
Barry MacSweeney --
Ode Long Kesh --
Flame Ode --
Ode --
Far Cliff Babylon --
from Pearl: Pearl Says --
from Pearl: The Shells Her Auburn Hair Did Show --
from Pearl: Pearl Alone --
Billy Mills --
Ballad: Of Motion --
Geraldine Monk --
CS --
AC --
South Bound: Facing North --
La Tormenta --
Eric Mottram --
Elegy 11: Ford --
Zuni Dancers --
Wendy Mulford --
Nevrazumitelny --
Grace Nichols --
Long-Man --
Black --
White --
Douglas Oliver --
The Oracle of the Drowned --
"u", "je", "r", "r", "im", "a", "finally" --
A Little Night --
Walnut and Lily --
Maggie O'Sullivan --
A Lesson from the Cockerel --
2nd Lesson from the Cockerel --
Narrative Charm for Ibbotroyd --
Hill Figures --
Giant Yellow --
Tom Pickard --
The Devil's Destroying Angel Exploded --
Bush Telegram --
What Maks Makems --
mY peN --
Elaine Randell --
from Songs for the Sleepless --
Hard To Place --
The Snoad Hill Poems --
Tom Raworth --
Future Models May Have Infra-Red Sensors --
That More Simple Natural Time Tone Distortion --
Dark Senses --
Out of a Sudden --
Carlyle Reedy --
The Doll Museum --
Denise Riley --
Lure, 1963 --
A Misremembered Lyric --
from Seven Strangely Exciting Lies: i Take Two of these Tablets Tonight and in the Morning Go on Living --
from Seven Strangely Exciting Lies: vi Flip flop --
from Seven Strangely Exciting Lies: vii Disintegrate me --
John Riley --
at the Stanley Spencer exhibition --
travel notes --
summer seeming --
Peter Riley --
Elf Shots --
from Alstonefield V --
E Questa Vita Un Lampo --
Maurice Scully --
Variations --
John Seed --
'This Curious Involvement, A Dominant Species' --
During War, The Timeless Air --
'From Escomb, County Durham': July 1990 --
Sofia --
"shadow of the gable-end" --
Gavin Selerie --
from Roxy: 23 --
from Roxy: 47 --
from Roxy: 52 --
Robert Sheppard --
from Empty Diaries / Twentieth Century Blues 24: Empty Diary 1905 --
from Empty Diaries / Twentieth Century Blues 24: Empty Diary 1936: The Proletarian News --
from Empty Diaries / Twentieth Century Blues 24: Empty Diary 1944 --
from Empty Diaries / Twentieth Century Blues 24: Empty Diary 1954 --
from Empty Diaries / Twentieth Century Blues 24: Empty Diary 1968 --
from Empty Diaries / Twentieth Century Blues 24: Empty Diary 1987 --
from Empty Diaries / Twentieth Century Blues 24: Empty Diary 1990 --
Colin Simms --
The First English Wildcat --
Pallid Harrier --
from Shots at Otters --
Grey Wagtail on the Tyne --
Iain Sinclair --
from The Ebbing of Kraft: ocean estate --
from The Ebbing of Kraft: snow lip --
from The Ebbing of Kraft: world's oldest comedian is dead --
from The Ebbing of Kraft: a serious of photographs --
Chris Torrance --
Acrospirical Meanderings in a Tongue of the Time --
"It Is Difficult to Exaggerate the Importance of Mushrooms as Food" --
Gael Turnbull --
Residues: Thronging the Heart --
There are Words --
Takings --
Catherine Walsh --
Nearly Nowhere --
from Pitch Part Three --
from A Wait --
Benjamin Zephaniah --
Speak --
The sun.
