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IAN GREGSON was born in Manchester and educated at Oxford and Hull and since 1997 has been Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Bangor. He is an award-winning poet and has published poems and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Poetry Review, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement was published by Macmillan in 1996.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Men and Mermaids: Robert Lowell's Martial Masculinity and Beyond Berryman and Buried Women Ted Hughes and the Goddess of Complete Being Able Seaman and the Penile Canon: Derek Walcott's Adamic Utterance Sons of Mother Ireland: Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon 'Insofar As They Are Embodiments of the Patriarchal Idea': Women Representing Men The Politics of Camp: Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery Creeps and Bastards: C.K. Williams as Voyeur