Contemporary British poetry and the city

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Barry, Peter

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

272 Seiten

Englisch

Manchester University Presserschienen am28.12.2000

Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories have stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance by exploring work by a range of poets who reflect the contemporary urban scene.mehr

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KlappentextThough poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories have stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance by exploring work by a range of poets who reflect the contemporary urban scene.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-7190-5594-2

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Manchester University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2000

Erscheinungsdatum28.12.2000

Seiten272 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 140 mm, Höhe 216 mm, Dicke 15 mm

Gewicht346 g

Artikel-Nr.13914411

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GenreRomane Hardcover

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MAPPING1. Introduction2. The roads to hell´3. Three urban tropes4. Writing the inner cityLOCAL SPECIFICS5. North of the word´ or Why, this is Hull´6. The hard lyric´: Re-registering Liverpool poetry7. Take off your shoes in Kings Cross´: Envisioning London8. Birmingham´s what I think with´: Roy Fisher´s cities9. I remember when all these fields were factories´Bibliographymehr