Crisis and Contemporary Poetry

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Form, Historical Crisis and Poetry’s Hope in George Szirtes’s ‘Metro’

Chapter 3 Persona, Trauma and Survival in Louise Glück’s Postmodern, Mythic, Twenty-First-Century ‘October’

Chapter 4 Hern : The Catastrophe of Lyric in John Burnside

Chapter 5 ‘In a ghostly pool of blood / a crumpled phantom hugged the mud’: Spectropoetic Presentations of Bloody Sunday and the Crisis of Northern Ireland

Chapter 6 ‘The Given Note’: Traditional Music, Crisis and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Chapter 8 The Mundane and the Monstrous: Everyday Epiphanies in Northern Irish Poetry

Chapter 9 ‘The memorial to all of them’: Landscape and the Holocaust in the Poetry of Michael Longley

Chapter 10 ‘Toward a Brink’: The Poetry of Kathleen Jamie and Environmental Crisis

Chapter 11 Sounding the Landscape: Dis-placement in the Poetry of Alice Oswald

Chapter 12 Place, Narrative and Crisis in the Long Poems of Paul Muldoon

Chapter 13 Paul Muldoon: Critical Judgement, the Crisis Poem, and the Ethics of Voice

Chapter 14 Displacing the Crisis: New British Poetry, Cultural Memory and the Role of the Intellectual

Chapter 15 The Body of Text Meets the Body as Text: Staging (I)dentity in the Work of SuAndi and Lemn Sissay