British literature in transition 1960 1980 : flower power This volume traces transitions in British literature brought about by the rapid momentous and far reaching changes of the 1960s and 1970s illuminating a diverse range of authors texts genres and movements. It looks at innovations in form considering experimental poetry fiction and drama and explores the literature of emergent identities in race gender sexuality and class. It considers changes in attitudes and in the mind itself: the growth of environmentalism perceptions of the past psychedelia the sexual revolution and information control. It examines local and regional developments visiting Wales Scotland Northern Ireland and northern England. Finally it focuses on shifts within the oeuvres of individual authors two poets two dramatists and a novelist: Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill and Iris Murdoch.