Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015, Hardcover by G...

Description: Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1, Hardcover by Gortschacher, Wolfgang (EDT); Malcolm, David (EDT), ISBN 1118843207, ISBN-13 9781118843208, Brand New, Free shipping in the US With contributions from an international group of noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1 offers a wide range of perspectives on British and Irish verse and on the contemporary poetry scene. Essays explore the richness and complexities of the work of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that have shaped these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series, this book is a comprehensive study of the most important British and Irish poetry of the last fifty years. This insightful and multi-dimensional volume: explores the shaping institutions (publishers, anthologies, prizes), histories, and reception of contemporary British and Irish poetry, including the international reception presents detailed analysis of individual texts coupled with a broad perspective on individual poets' work and that of larger groups of poets offers discussions of major themes and genres takes into account the work of canonical and less canonical writers gives prominent place to the work of women writers gives extensive space to the discussion of verse by writers of ethnic minority backgrounds explores issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary poetry combines consideration of traditional verse with that of avant-garde and experimental poetry offers revaluations of received ideas concerning individual poets and groups of poets provides an international perspective on British and Irish poetry Wolfgang Gortschacher is Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg, where he has taught literary criticism and translation studies since the early 1990s. He has published widely on British poetry magazines, contemporary British and Irish literature, and translation studies. His translations of German poetry into English and English poetry into German have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is the owner-director of the small press Poetry Salzburg, editor of the little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review, co-editor of the academic journal Moderne Sprachen, and president of AAUTE (Austrian Association of University Teachers of English). David Malcolm is a professor of English at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He previously taught for twenty-eight years at the University of Gdansk. He has published extensively on British and Irish fiction and poetry. His translations of Polish and German literature have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is co-organizer of the Festival of Literature and Theatre which has been held annually in Sopot, Poland, since 2010.

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