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The Politics of Street Trees
This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance. This is an innovative approach which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges and reveals a huge amount about the nature of modern life, social change and political conflict. The work first provides different historical perspectives on street trees and politics, celebrating diversity in different cultures. A second section discusses street tree values, policy and management, addressing more contemporary issues of their significance and contribution to our environment, both physically and philosophi...
Reading and Writing through Auden
This book consists of three main parts: first, close readings and critical analyses of four major poetical works by W.H. Auden—“The Watershed,” The Sea and the Mirror, “New Year Letter,” and “In Time of War”; secondly, ten semi-informal letters addressed to W.H. Auden; and thirdly, a sequence of short and long poems which adapt the life and speeches of a major public figure in U.S. politics. The issues raised in the first part—poetic voice, the lyric subject, public rhetoric, and parabolic writing—are elaborated on in the correspondence with W.H. Auden. The book proposes a creative writing discipline founded on self-mentorship—the productive and intensive exchange between...
The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010
This book provides an overview of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century.
The Lyric Poem
As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the nature of genre.
Poetry & the Dictionary
This innovative collection of essays is the first volume to explore the many ways in which dictionaries have stimulated the imaginations of modern and contemporary poets from Britain, Ireland, and America, while also considering how poetry has itself been a rich source of material for lexicographers.
Startle Response
Poetry. "In Fuller's STARTLE RESPONSE, the complex contours, historical density, and transformative potentiality of lived culture, are not given free reign (as that's a coercion of the now-now / status quo) but put to the acid test of genuine democratic impulse: each and every momentary autonomy of the word gives (graceful) way to a more fulsome expression of the radical interdependencies that constitute us"--Rodrigo Toscano. "Heather Fuller's strange beautiful music produces an analogous effect. But more importantly, from "patriot act in five scenes to "bluegrass squalor," Fuller's dark funny book expands the definition of "startle response" beyond mere bodily reflex to... a psychic "circuit breaker," an "interrupter mechanism" which "resets" consciousness and enables a crucial shifting of attention from one thing to another"--Sianne Ngai.
Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge
Poetry. "I've heard it said that poetry that uses the phrasal fragment can't have a coherent and strident politics. I've never believed it. But if for some reason you have, read ONCE UPON A NEOLIBERAL ROCKET BADGE and be shown the way. This collectuon makes the lyric and socialist realist documentary look helpless in the face of neoliberalism. If there is, as many want to argue now, a poetry of globalization, Jules Boykoff is writing it and those looking for what poetry might look like post-Seattle will find this necessary reading"-Juliana Spahr. "Boykoff unleashes a ribald criticality as a bald come on to liberation. Liberation shimmies. New stuff shakes out. Here's a poetic practice boldly moving beyond current centrist expreimental poetries and their obsession with betweening and thereining. Bump all that! Give us the shake out. Give us a hand"-Rodrigo Toscano.
Horses in Boiling Blood
Translations and adaptations of Guillaume Apollinaire by Barry MacSweeney and poems by MacSweeney inspired by him.
Dick of the Dead
Poetry. DICK OF THE DEAD is an investigation into American sexual and political consciousness, and at its eccentric heart lies the undead and uneasy 37th president of the United States, Richard M. Nixon. Also sifting the evidence (or implicated in its findings) are an experimental subject in a pink tutu, a Finnish gravedigger, an exiled Anglo-Saxon poet, and an industrious gang of fairies. Loden's Nixon is never merely the consummate villain deplored by his critics nor the tragic visionary statesman acclaimed by his apologists. He is nearly a force of nature: throwing off his gravestone in the garden at Yorba Linda, calling up his troops, his family, and even his black and white cocker spaniel, he is ready to smash death by any means necessary, to beat back a sea of pretenders and retake Washington by storm. DICK OF THE DEAD is a trip through the underworld of the American psyche, much funnier and ultimately much more serious than any one book of poems has a right to be.
Necessary Steps
Subtitled "Poetry / Elegy / Walking / Spirit", this is a collection of essays covering walking and poetry, but also forms of elegy and the spiritual and how they interact with poetry. Essays by Andrea Brady, Ian Davidson and Zoë Skoulding, John Hall, Sarah Law, Peter Middleton, Jennifer Moxley, Stuart Mugridge (in conversation with Christine Kennedy), Jeremy Noel-Tod, Malcolm Phillips, Peter Riley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Josh Robinson, Jane Routh, Penelope Shuttle, Lawrence Upton and Stephen Vincent.
