Andrew Smith is Professor of Sociology at University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of two previous volumes published by Palgrave: C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture (2010) and Racism and Everyday Life (2016). He is the co-editor of Marxism, Colonialism and Cricket (2018) and has published various articles in journals such as Cultural Sociology, The Sociological Review, Cultural Studies and New Formations.

• .- Chapter 1 A Late Return to Form: Reflections on sociology and poetry. .- Chapter 2 Reading Poetry Now: A brief methodological overview..- Chapter 3 Where Are We Going With This?: Poetry and symbolic exclusion. .- Chapter 4 Not Within Us, But Between Us: Making sense of poetry. .- Chapter 5 We’ve All Got An Inner Being: Poetic labour in an unequal field. .- Chapter 6 A Long Conclusion: On the uses of poetry.

Andrew Smith is Professor of Sociology at University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of two previous volumes published by Palgrave: C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture (2010) and Racism and Everyday Life (2016). He is the co-editor of Marxism, Colonialism and Cricket (2018) and has published various articles in journals such as Cultural Sociology, The Sociological Review, Cultural Studies and New Formations.

• .- Chapter 1 A Late Return to Form: Reflections on sociology and poetry. .- Chapter 2 Reading Poetry Now: A brief methodological overview..- Chapter 3 Where Are We Going With This?: Poetry and symbolic exclusion. .- Chapter 4 Not Within Us, But Between Us: Making sense of poetry. .- Chapter 5 We’ve All Got An Inner Being: Poetic labour in an unequal field. .- Chapter 6 A Long Conclusion: On the uses of poetry.

Andrew Smith is Professor of Sociology at University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of two previous volumes published by Palgrave: C.L.R. James and the Study of Culture (2010) and Racism and Everyday Life (2016). He is the co-editor of Marxism, Colonialism and Cricket (2018) and has published various articles in journals such as Cultural Sociology, The Sociological Review, Cultural Studies and New Formations.

• .- Chapter 1 A Late Return to Form: Reflections on sociology and poetry. .- Chapter 2 Reading Poetry Now: A brief methodological overview..- Chapter 3 Where Are We Going With This?: Poetry and symbolic exclusion. .- Chapter 4 Not Within Us, But Between Us: Making sense of poetry. .- Chapter 5 We’ve All Got An Inner Being: Poetic labour in an unequal field. .- Chapter 6 A Long Conclusion: On the uses of poetry.