Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest
critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic
poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so
that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati.
Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets'
of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous
music of what happens here. Poets discussed include: Ken Smith,
Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran
Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn
Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and
Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad
spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns.
Includes 'loco-specific' chapters, on cities including Hull,
Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on
'post-industrial' cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee. -- .
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