A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 by Gortschacher, Wolfgang

A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781118843208)

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A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 by Gortschacher, Wolfgang

A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015

$205.95
A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 by Gortschacher, Wolfgang

A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015

$205.95
Format: Hardcover
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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 important book:

  • Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry
  • Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry
  • Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets
  • Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context

Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.



Author: Wolfgang Gortschacher
ISBN-10: 1118843207
ISBN-13: 9781118843208
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2020
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 11.40h x 5.00w x 1.50d
By Wolfgang Gortschacher
By Wolfgang Gortschacher
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Wolfgang Gtschacher is Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg, where he has taught literary criticism and translation studies since the early 1990s. He has published widely on British poetry magazines, contemporary British and Irish literature, and translation studies. His translations of German poetry into English and English poetry into German have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is the owner-director of the small press Poetry Salzburg, editor of the little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review, co-editor of the academic journal Moderne Sprachen, and president of AAUTE (Austrian Association of University Teachers of English).

David Malcolm is a professor of English at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He previously taught for twenty-eight years at the University of Gdańsk. He has published extensively on British and Irish fiction and poetry. His translations of Polish and German literature have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is co-organizer of the Between.Pomiędzy Festival of Literature and Theatre which has been held annually in Sopot, Poland, since 2010.

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