Title: Contemporary British poetry and the city /
Authors: Barry, Peter,
Date: 2000
Publisher: Manchester University Press ;
Physical description: 260 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories have stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance by exploring work by a range of poets who reflect the contemporary urban scene.
Contents: Introduction -- 'The roads to hell' -- Three urban tropes -- Writing the inner city -- 'North of the word' or 'Why, this is Hull' -- 'The hard lyric': re-registering Liverpool poetry -- 'Take off your shoes in King's Cross': envisioning London -- 'Birmingham's what I think with': Roy Fisher's cities -- 'I remember when all these fields were factories': writing the vanishing city.
Subject headings (LCSH): Cities and towns in literature; English poetry--20th century