"Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry examines the question of how recent English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the diverse physical environments of Wales. The first volume to offer a sustained assessment of Welsh poetry in English within the contest of recent…
"Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry examines the question of how recent English-language poetry from Wales has responded to the diverse physical environments of Wales. The first volume to offer a sustained assessment of Welsh poetry in English within the contest of recent…
Introduction / Andrew Auge and Eugene O'Brien -- Reading Heaney's Bog Poems in the Anthropocene / Andrew Auge -- Songs in Stone: Moya Cannon and Ecomusicology / Donna Potts -- 'Balanced between Cliff and Flowers': The Enduring Earth Step in Moya Cannon's 'Word Pools' / Christine…
"Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish …
"Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish …
Responses from the nineteenth century onwards to the medieval French poet.
Medieval Paris' paradigmatic poet, Francois Villon, has long captured the imaginations of creative writers. Attracted by his beguilingly pseudo-autobiographical literary persona and a body of work that moves seamlessly between bawdy humour, bitterness, devotion, and regret, Vill…
Introduction: The margins of Europe: a new comparison -- The dynamic ideal and the protean self: Adam Zagajewski -- Figuring otherness in the work of Adam Zagajewski -- Belonging on the edge: Derek Mahon's outsider poetics -- Inhabiting the earth: Derek Mahon's dissonances and h…
"The author offers a historical account of modernist poetic form and analyzes how poetry was read and written in the twentieth century. The rise of free verse in the early 1900s is commonly thought to be a resistance to or liberation from regimented meter, privileging instead an…
"The author offers a historical account of modernist poetic form and analyzes how poetry was read and written in the twentieth century. The rise of free verse in the early 1900s is commonly thought to be a resistance to or liberation from regimented meter, privileging instead an…
"The author offers a historical account of modernist poetic form and analyzes how poetry was read and written in the twentieth century. The rise of free verse in the early 1900s is commonly thought to be a resistance to or liberation from regimented meter, privileging instead an…