Table Of Contents:
Preface vii
Introduction 1(16)

Romana Huk

Donald Davie and the Failure of Englishness 17(18)

Antony Easthope

The Poetry of Roy Fisher 35(28)

John Matthias

Poets of A Various Art: J. H. Prynne, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Andrew Crozier 63(18)

Edward Larrissy

Poetry and the Woman's Movement in Postwar Britain 81(32)

Claire Buck

Ian Hamilton Finlay and Concrete Poetry 113(30)

Nicholas Zurbrugg

From Myth into History: The Later Poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes 143(32)

Paul Giles

Poetry of the Committed Individual: Jon Silkin, Tony Harrison, Geoffrey Hill, and the Poets of Postwar Leeds 175(46)

Romana Huk

``Upon the Slippery Place''; or, In the Shit: Geoffrey Hill's Writing and the Failures of Postmodern Memory 221(24)

R. K. Meiners

``Look for the Doing Words'': Carol Ann Duffy and Questions of Convention 245(24)

Linda Kinnahan

Postfeminist Poetry?: ``one more word for balls'' 269(24)

Vicki Bertram

Bass History Is A-Moving: Black Men's Poetry in Britain 293(22)

Alastair Niven

Accent and Identity: Women Poets of Many Parts 315(28)

C. L. Innes

From the Lost Ground: Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn, and Contemporary Scottish Poetry 343(30)

Cairns Craig

Wales and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Gillian Clarke, Robert Minhinnick, and Jeremy Hooker 373(24)

Linden Peach
Notes on Contributors 397(4)
Acknowledgments 401(14)
Index 415