Author | : Blake Morrison |
File Size | : 43,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Harmondsworth, Middlesex : Penguin Books |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 05 May 1982 |
ISBN | : UOM:39015004045517 |
Pages | : 220 pages |
The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry by Blake Morrison Book PDF Summary
There is unquestionably a new spirit in poetry today, argue the editors of this superb anthology. Charting the development of British poetry over the past few decades - expressed in a renewed interest in narrative, a preference for metaphor and post-modernist wit, and a reassertion of the primacy of imagination - this collection opens with Seamus Heaney and includes several more poets from Ireland, alongside Douglas Dunn, Craig Raine, James Fenton, Anne Stevenson and others. Together they represent a dynamic generation of poets.