The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945–2010
Cambridge Companions to Literature Series

The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945?2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished. As a comprehensive critical, literary-historical and scholarly guide, this Companion offers not only new readings of a wide range of poets but a detailed account of the contexts in which their verse was written and received. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.

1. Poets of the forties and early fifties: the last Romantics? C. D. Blanton; 2. The movement Patrick Deane; 3. Survivors: modernists and thirties poets John Matthias; 4. Beyond all this fiddle Eric Falci; 5. Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the children of Albion, and performance poetry Cornelia Grabner; 6. High late modernists or postmodernists? Simon Perril; 7. Stretching the lyric: the metaphor men, new narrative poetry, and other ruses Natalie Pollard; 8. Poetry and class Sandie Byrne; 9. Northern Irish poetry Fran Brearton; 10. Scottish poetry Alan Riach; 11. Welsh poetry Katie Gramich; 12. Black British poetry Sarah Lawson Welsh; 13. Poetry, feminism, gender and women's experience Jan Montefiore; 14. Ecopoetics Fiona Becket; 15. Poetry and the city Peter Barry; 16. Outward forms Jon Glover.

Edward Larrissy is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Queen's University Belfast. His published works include Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry: The Language of Gender and Objects, Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference, Blake and Modern Literature, and The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period.