The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010

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.

'Examining poetry from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and poetry written in postcolonial contexts, the essays, taken together, offer a comprehensive approach to a wide range of issues to which poets responded, including national identity, the 'movement,' migration, feminism, gender, women's experience, postmodernism, and ecopoetics. … In sum, this collection provides valuable insights into the full diversity and wide spectrum of British poetry.' Choice

• 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.