Poetry & geography : space and place in post-war poetry / edited by Neal Alexander and David Cooper.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.

pt. 1: Placing selves: identity, location, community. City of change and challenge: Liverpool in Paul Farley's poetry / Charles I. Armstrong ; Mapping the geographies of hurt in Barry MacSweeney and S.J. Litherland / Peter Barry ; Place under pressure: reading John Tripp's Wales / Matthew Jarvis ; 'Still linked to those others': landscape and language in post-war Welsh Poetry / Katie Gramich ; Roaring amen: Charles Causley speaks of home / Andrew Tate -- pt. 2: Spatial practices: walking, witnessing, mapping. The road divides: Thomas Kinsella's urban poetics / Lucy Collins ; 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson / Daniel Weston ; 'Whitby is a statement': littoral geographies in British poetry / Amy Cutler ; 'Where lives converge': Peter Riley and the poetics of place / Neal Alexander ; Envisioning 'the cubist fells': ways of seeing in the poetry of Norman Nicholson / David Cooper -- pt. 3: Geopoetics: landscape, language, form. 'Wanderer, incomer, borderer/liar, mother of everything I see': Jo Shapcott's engagement with landscape, art and poetry / Deryn Rees-Jones ; John Burnside: poetry as the space of withdrawal / Scott Brewster ; 'Water's soliloquy': soundscape and environment in Alice Oswald's Dart / Peter Howarth ; Roy Fisher's spatial prepositions and other little words / Peter Robinson.

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Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Drawing impetus from the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, the fourteen essays collected here appraise the significance of ideas of space, place, and landscape for 'mainstream' and 'experimental' poets, post-romantics and neo-modernists alike. Cumulatively, the book's varied articulations of poetry and geography sketch out a series of intersections between language and location, form and environment, sound and space. Poetry's unique capacity to invigorate and expand our vocabularies of site and situation, of our manifold relations with the world outside us, is described and explored. Bringing together fresh, interdisciplinary readings of poets as diverse as Roy Fisher and R.S. Thomas, John Burnside and Thomas Kinsella, Jo Shapcott and Peter Riley, Alice Oswald and Ciaran Carson, Poetry & Geography sketches a topographical map of shared poetic terrains. It contributes to a fertile set of dialogues between literary studies and cultural geography in which the valences of space and place are open to processes of contestation and reimagining. This new collection of critical essays provides readers with a vital set of coordinates in a complex and evolving field. Key themes include: place and identity; literary cartographies; walking as trope and spatial practice; the poetics of edges, margins, and peripheries; landscape, language, and form.

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