Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry
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Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry

Seditious Things

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Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry

Seditious Things

About this book

This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation only recovering towards the end of his life which was cut short by alcoholism. With close readings of MacSweeney alongside his contemporaries, precursors, and influences, including J.H. Prynne, Shelley, Jack Spicer, and Sylvia Plath, Luke Roberts offers a fresh introduction to the field of modern poetry. Richly detailed with archival and bibliographic research, this book recovers the social and political context of MacSweeney's exciting, challenging, and controversial impact on modern and contemporary poetry.

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Table of contents

  1. A Note on Archives and Sources
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction: ā€˜Here WeĀ All Are toĀ Greet You’
  5. Chapter 2: Books, Devices, Verbal Chicanery, andĀ Cosmological Range
  6. Chapter 3: Strikers withĀ Poems: FromĀ Green Cabaret toĀ Black Torch
  7. Chapter 4: Seeing andĀ Being Seen: Serial Poetry andĀ Surveillance, 1970–75
  8. Chapter 5: Into theĀ Dangerous Decade: 1979–82
  9. Chapter 6: Class andĀ Representation: FromĀ Wild Knitting toĀ Hellhound Memos
  10. Chapter 7: Pearl onĀ theĀ Law
  11. Chapter 8: Conclusion: Nostalgia forĀ theĀ Future
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index