Preface
Introduction
Romana Huk
1 Donald Davie and the Failure of Englishness
Antony Easthope
2 The Poetry of Roy Fisher
John Matthias
3 Poets of A Various Art: J. H. Prynne, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Andrew Crozier
Edward Larrissy
4 Poetry and the Women's Movement in Postwar Britain
Claire Buck
5 Ian Hamilton Finlay and Concrete Poetry
Nicholas Zurbrugg
6 From Myth into History: The Later Poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes
Paul Giles
7 Poetry of the Committed Individual: Jon Silkin, Tony Harrison, Geoffrey Hill, and the Poets of Postwar Leeds
Romana Huk
8 "Upon the Slippery Place"; or, In the Shit: Geoffrey Hill's Writing and the Failures of Postmodern Memory
R. K. Meiners
9 "Look for the Doing Words": Carol Ann Duffy and Questions of Convention
Linda Kinnahan
10 Postfeminist Poetry?: "one more word for balls"
Vicki Bertram
11 Bass History Is A-Moving: Black Men's Poetry in Britain
Alastair Niven
12 Accent and Identity: Women Poets of Many Parts
C. L. Innes
13 From the Lost Ground: Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn, and Contemporary Scottish Poetry
Cairns Craig
14 Wales and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Gillian Clarke, Robert Minhinnick, and Jeremy Hooker
Linden Peach
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index