Poetry and displacement / Stan Smith.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.

Introduction : poetry, place and displacement -- On the edge of things : Philip Larkin -- A double man in a double place : Iain Crichton Smith -- Salvaged from the ruins : Ken Smith's Constellations -- Lost bearings : Christopher Middleton -- 'What like is it?' : Carol Ann Duffy's Différance -- Darkening English : post-imperial contestations in Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott -- Living in history -- An age of simulation : tall tales and short stories -- Nowhere anyone would like to get to -- Milking the cow of the world : displacement displaced.

The last hundred years have been an era of unprecedented displacements: the accelerated drift of rural populations to the metropolis, the spread of these cities into successive empires, and the resulting diasporas that have forged the modern United States and any number of smaller nations. These processes have fostered a poetry of exile and expatriation intimately bound up with the experience and culture of modernity. This book is a thought-provoking and challenging examination of globalized displacement in the work of some of our most critically-acclaimed poets, including Christopher Middleton, Philip Larkin and Derek Walcott.

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