Poetry & Geography: Space & Place in Post-war Poetry

Poetry & Geography

Space & Place in Post-war Poetry

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Edited by Neal Alexander, David Cooper

Publisher:: Liverpool University Press
Online publication date:: July 2017
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781781388075

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts

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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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Introduction: Poetry & Geography
pp 1-18

Part I - Placing Selves: Identity, Location, Community
pp 19-20

1 - City of Change and Challenge: Liverpool in Paul Farley's Poetry
pp 21-32

2 - Mapping the Geographies of Hurt in Barry MacSweeney and S.J. Litherland
pp 33-48

3 - Place under Pressure: Reading John Tripp's Wales
pp 49-60

4 - ‘Still linked to those others’: Landscape and Language in Post-war Welsh Poetry
pp 61-74

5 - Roaring Amen: Charles Causley Speaks of Home
pp 75-88

Part II - Spatial Practices: Walking, Witnessing, Mapping
pp 89-90

6 - The Road Divides: Thomas Kinsella's Urban Poetics
pp 91-104

7 - ‘I know this labyrinth so well’: Narrative Mappings in the Poetry of Ciaran Carson
pp 105-119

8 - ‘Whitby is a statement’: Littoral Geographies in British Poetry
pp 120-133

9 - ‘Where lives converge’: Peter Riley and the Poetics of Place
pp 134-147

10 - Envisioning ‘the cubist fells’: Ways of Seeing in the Poetry of Norman Nicholson
pp 148-160

Part III - Geopoetics: Landscape, Language, Form
pp 161-162

11 - ‘Wanderer, incomer, borderer/ liar, mother of everything I see’: Jo Shapcott's Engagement with Landscape, Art and Poetry
pp 163-177

12 - John Burnside: Poetry as the Space of Withdrawal
pp 178-189

13 - ‘Water's Soliloquy’: Soundscape and Environment in Alice Oswald's Dart
pp 190-203

14 - Roy Fisher's Spatial Prepositions and Other Little Words
pp 204-216

Notes
pp 217-253

Notes on Contributors
pp 254-256

Select Bibliography
pp 257-262

Index
pp 263-272

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