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Author Sheppard, Robert, 1955- author.

Title The poetry of saying : British poetry and its discontents, 1950-2000 / Robert Sheppard.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Liverpool English texts and studies ; 45
Liverpool English texts and studies ; 45.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The Poetry of Saying presents the history and social development of alternative forms of British poetry, still little examined or dismissed, set against the context of the development of the Movement Orthodoxy, those writers who followed and attenuated the tradition of Philip Larkin, even as Larkin?s cultural capital fell. Ranging from the quiet work of Lee Harwood to the avant-gardism of Bob Cobbing, from the major works of Roy Fisher to the still developing sonic and semantic experiments of Maggie O?Sullivan, and covering a number of other writers in their historical context, this work is th.
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Contents Introduction : technique : dialogue : saying -- 1. Movement poets and the movement orthodoxy in the 1950s and 1960s -- 2. British poetry revival 1960-1978 -- 3. Starting to make the world : the poetry of Roy Fisher in the 1960s and 1970s -- 4. Keeping the doors open : the poetry of Lee Harwood in the 1960s and 1970s -- 5. Persistence of the movement orthodoxy in the 1980s and 1990s -- 6. Linguistically innovative poetry 1978-2000 -- 7. What was to one side or not real : the poetry of Tom Raworth 1970-1991 -- 8. Creative linkage in the work of Allen Fisher, Adrian Clarke and Ulli Freer in the 1980s and 1990s -- 9. Ballet of the speech organs : the poetry of Bob Cobbing 1965-2000.
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Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Poets, English.
Poets, English.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Sheppard, Robert, 1955- Poetry of saying. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2005 0853238197 9780853238195 (OCoLC)58828379
ISBN 9781846313806 (electronic book)
1846313805 (electronic book)
0853238197
9780853238195