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Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry
This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation only recovering towards the end of his life which was cut short by alcoholism. With close readings of MacSweeney alongside his contemporaries, precursors, and influences, including J.H. Prynne, Shelley, Jack Spicer, and Sylvia Plath, Luke Roberts offers a fresh introduction to the field of modern poetry. Richly detailed with archival and bibliographic research, this book recovers the social and political context of MacSweeney’s exciting, challenging, and controversial impact on modern and contemporary poetry.
A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015
A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This impo...
Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer'
Despite the brevity of its run and the diminutive size of its audience, The English Intelligencer is a key publication in the history of literary modernism in the British Isles. Emerging in the mid-1960s from a dissatisfaction with the prevailing norms of 'Betjeman's England', the young writers associated with it were catalysed by the example of Donald Allen's The New American Poetry as they sought to establish a revitalised modernist poetics. Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer gives the first full account of the extraordinary history of this publication, bringing to light extensive new archival material to establish an authoritative contextualisation of its operation and its relationship with post-war British poetry. This material provides compelling new insights into the work of the Intelligencer poets themselves and, more broadly, the continued presence of an international poetic modernism as a vital force in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century.
Barry MacSweeney Poetry Collection
Collection consists of poetry books and booklets by English poet Barry MacSweeney (1948-2000) published between 1968 and 2011. Born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, MacSweeney began working closely with acclaimed poets such as Andrew Crozier and J.H. Prynne in the 1960s; in the 1970s, he founded his own press, Blacksuede Boot Press. MacSweeney was associated with the British Poetry Revival. The collection materials are arranged chronologically.
Reading Barry MacSweeney
Barry MacSweeney was described as 'a contrary, lone wolf...[whose] ear for a soaring lyric melody was unmatched' (Nicholas Johnson, Independent). MacSweeney found fame with his first book, The Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells of his Mother, which appeared when he was just nineteen years old. But he soon retreated from the publicity, and for almost thirty years his poetry appeared only in small press publications. Identifying himself with Chatterton and Rimbaud, MacSweeney developed a poetics based on experiment and excess, from the fragmented lyricism of 'Brother Wolf' to the political anger of 'Jury Vet'; from the dizzying historical perspectives of Ranter to the nightmarish urban landscape...
Maggie O'Sullivan, David Gascoyne, Barry MacSweeney
"winter ceremony, " a commissioned work, opens the first collection by Maggie O'Sullivan since In The House Of The Shaman; the selection from David Gascoyne's array of lifework was recently retrieved from notebooks dating 1936-37, and is published here for the first time; Barry MacSweeney, at the age of seventeen championed as a lyric boy-wonder who broke all the rules, is represented here by a selection that includes four new long poems, Zero Hour.
Wolf Tongue
Barry MacSweeney's last book, 'The Book of Demons' recorded his fight against alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his life. When he died in 2000, he had just assembled a retrospective of his work. 'Wolf Tongue' is how he wanted to be known and remembered.
Desire Lines
Desire Lines presents work drawn from across the author's writing life, and brings more than 300 pages of his work back into print. Drawing on archives and extensive bibliographic resources, this volume collects the majority of MacSweeney's poetry not included in Wolf Tongue (2003), together with an introduction and notes by the editor.
