Living in History

Poetry in Britain, 1945–1979

AvLuke Roberts

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Challenging received ideas about the British Poetry Revival, Luke Roberts presents a new account of experimental poetry and literary activism. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and traditions, Living in History begins by examining the legacies of empire and exile in the work of Kamau Brathwaite, J. H. Prynne, and poets associated with the Communist Party and the African National Congress. It then focuses on the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Denise Riley, Anna Mendelssohn and others, in the development of liberation struggles around gender, race and sexuality across the 1970s. Tracking the ambivalence between poetic ambition and political commitment, and how one sometimes interferes with the other, Luke Roberts troubles the exclusions of 'British Poetry' as a category and tests the claims made on behalf avant-garde and experimental poetics against the historical record. Bringing together both major and neglected authorships and offering extended close readings, fresh archival research and new contextual evidence, Living in History is an ambitious and exciting intervention in the field.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Avant-Garde Writing
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399519861

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Luke Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King’s College London. He is the author of Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things (2017), which was nominated for the University English first book prize. His writing has appeared in ELH, Textual Practice, The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and elsewhere.He is co-editor, with Sam Ladkin, of the work of Mark Hyatt, including So Much For Life: Selected Poems (2023), and the novel Love, Leda (2023). He also edited Barry MacSweeney, Desire Lines: Unselected Poems: 1966–2000 (2018), and was co-editor of Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer (2014).His books of poetry include Home Radio (2021), and his poems have been published in Chicago Review, Ludd Gang, Cambridge Literary Review and many other little magazines. With Amy Tobin he edits the small press Distance No Object.

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Luke Roberts’s Living in History is an important addition to scholarship about British poetry after World War II. Deftly weaving together archival research, personal reflection, and fresh interpretations of poems, Roberts significantly broadens our sense of the relationship between post-war British poetry and the myriad political movements that shaped it.

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Living in HistoryPart I1. Possessing the Landscape: Kamau Brathwaite in England, 1950–19552. Lovely, Flaring, Destruction: J.H. Prynne, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn3. The Avant-Garde of Their Own People: Poetry and Exile, 1959–1975Part II:4. Driven Out of the Town: Homosexuality and the British Poetry Revival5. Living in Feminism: Denise Riley and Wendy Mulford6. Yout Rebels: Refusal and Self-Defence 1970–19797. Grave Police Music: Anti-Carceral Poetics8. Fear of Retribution: Anna Mendelssohn Coda: The Kind of Poetry I WantSelect BibliographyIndex