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Poets on Writing

Britain, 1970–1991

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Denise Riley
      Pages 1-5
  3. The Conditions of Writing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Grasping the Plural

      • Ken Edwards
      Pages 21-29
    3. You Can’t Get There from Here

      • Nick Totton
      Pages 30-40
    4. Writing and Not Writing

      • John Hall
      Pages 41-49
    5. Two Poems

      • Grace Lake
      Pages 50-51
    6. The State of Poetry Today

      • Tom Raworth
      Pages 52-54
  4. What the Work Is

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    2. The Particularity of Poetry

      • Martin Harrison
      Pages 61-66
    3. Two Poems

      • Martin Harrison
      Pages 67-69
    4. The Subject of Poems

      • Michael Haslam
      Pages 70-80
    5. Two Poems

      • John Riley
      Pages 81-82
    6. What Are You Going to Call It?

      • John Riley
      Pages 83-84
    7. Moving Buildings

      • Anthony Barnett
      Pages 85-89
    8. Subsequent Looping

      • Allen Fisher
      Pages 90-91
    9. The Creative Moment of the Poem

      • Peter Riley
      Pages 92-113
    10. John Clare’s Mountain

      • Wendy Mulford
      Pages 114-117

About this book

A collection of essays and some related poems by almost 30 contemporary poets who have worked for years outside the "mainstream" of British publishing. Many are or have been small-press publishers and editors too.

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