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Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, Biology and Technology in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

By Sam Solnick

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9781138941687 | Routledge, August 9, 2016, cover price $145.00

Irish Poetry Under the Union, 1801-1924

Product Description: This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early years of the Irish Free State. Through careful poetic and historical analysis, Matthew Campbell offers ways to read that poetry as ruptured, musical, translated and new...read more

By Matthew Campbell

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9781107044845 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 18, 2013, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early years of the Irish Free State.

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9781107622845 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 28, 2016, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early years of the Irish Free State.

The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930

Product Description: Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siÃ¨cle and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure; the muse as a male figure; and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both...read more

By Sarah Parker

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9781848933866 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, November 30, 2013, cover price $150.00

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9781138662186, titled "The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity 1889-1930" | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male.

The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry 1945-2010

Product Description: The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished...read more

By Edward Larrissy (editor)

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9781107090668 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 5, 2016, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished.

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9781107462847 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 5, 2016, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished.

The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry 1945-2010

Product Description: The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945- 2010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through the present. It offers a comprehensive view of the historical context surrounding the poetry and provides in-depth readings of many of the period's central poets...read more

By Eric Falci

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9781107029637 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2015, cover price $79.99 | About this edition: The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945- 2010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through the present.

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9781107542570 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2015, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945- 2010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through the present.

Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry

Product Description: Postcolonial Overtures explores the importance of sound in contemporary Northern Irish writing, focusing on the work of three canonical poets: Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon. Obert argues that these poets respond to what Edward Said calls "geographical violence"-to the stratification of the North's visual spaces; to the sectarian symbols splashed across Belfast and beyond-by turning from the eye to the ear, tentatively remapping place in acoustic space...read more

By Julia C. Obert

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9780815634003 | Syracuse Univ Pr, October 15, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Postcolonial Overtures explores the importance of sound in contemporary Northern Irish writing, focusing on the work of three canonical poets: Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon.

Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space

Product Description: Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space explores why houses, in some ways the most private of spaces, have taken up such visibly public positions in the work of a range of prominent poets from Northern Ireland, examining the work of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Medbh McGuckian...read more

By Adam Hanna

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9781137493699 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 29, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Northern Irish Poetry and Domestic Space explores why houses, in some ways the most private of spaces, have taken up such visibly public positions in the work of a range of prominent poets from Northern Ireland, examining the work of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Medbh McGuckian.

Cancer Poetry

Product Description: This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery...read more

By Iain Twiddy

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9781137361998 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 9, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry.

Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics

Product Description: After the publication of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land , a complex series of debates occurred over the traditions of English poetry. Analyzing these diverse discussions in a wide range of well-known periodicals during the late modernist period, Chambers uncovers how poetry was shaped by avant-garde ideas, setting poetic trends for the 20th century...read more

By Matthew Chambers

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9781137541352 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 22, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: After the publication of T.

The Transformative Impact of Modern Science and Technology on British and American Twentieth Century Poetry

Product Description: Dr Al-Zubeidy brings an insider's knowledge and an outsider's eye to one of the key issues in Anglo-American poetry: the transformative aspects of change based on science and technology, its relentlessness and its disruptive tendencies...read more

By Adil Saleh Al-zubeidy

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9781936320936 | Academica Pr Llc, February 10, 2015, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Dr Al-Zubeidy brings an insider's knowledge and an outsider's eye to one of the key issues in Anglo-American poetry: the transformative aspects of change based on science and technology, its relentlessness and its disruptive tendencies.

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9780387162195, titled "The Breadth and Depth of Continuum Mechanics: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to J.L. Ericksen on His Sixtieth Birthday" | Springer Verlag, February 1, 1986, cover price $63.00 | also contains The Breadth and Depth of Continuum Mechanics: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to J.L. Ericksen on His Sixtieth Birthday | About this edition: This volume collects papers dedicated to Jerry Ericksen on his sixtieth birthday, December 20, 1984.

A History of Modernist Poetry

Product Description: A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T...read more

By Lee M. Jenkins (editor)

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9781107038677 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2015, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period.

The Fall of Altdorf

Product Description: With the hordes of Chaos marshalling in the north and the Emperor lost, it falls to Reiksmarshal Kurt Helborg to prepare to meet the forces of the Ruinous Powers.The End Times are coming. With the hordes of Chaos marshalling in the north, Emperor Karl Franz leads his armies in defence of his realm...read more

By Chris Wraight

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9780403007202, titled "Aspects of Modern Poetry" | Scholarly Pr, June 1, 1972, cover price $79.00 | also contains Aspects of Modern Poetry | About this edition: Book by Sitwell, Edith

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9781849709446 | Games Workshop Ltd, March 3, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: With the hordes of Chaos marshalling in the north and the Emperor lost, it falls to Reiksmarshal Kurt Helborg to prepare to meet the forces of the Ruinous Powers.

9781849709392 | Gardners Books, February 26, 2015, cover price $15.45 | About this edition: With the hordes of Chaos marshalling in the north and the Emperor lost, it falls to Reiksmarshal Kurt Helborg to prepare to meet the forces of the Ruinous Powers.

Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal

Product Description: On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperialist married to Byron's only granddaughter...read more

By Lucy McDiarmid

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9780198722786 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 20, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock.

Contemporary British Poetry

By David Wheatley

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9780230362529 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 16, 2014, cover price $95.00

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9780230362536 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 16, 2014, cover price $32.00

Nature, Environment and Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

Product Description: The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response to problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss and widespread pollution continues to fall short...read more

By Susanna Lidstrâm

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9781138775244 | Routledge, June 26, 2015, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope.

Perspectives on World War I Poetry

Product Description: Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18...read more

By Robert C. Evans

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9781472510211 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 8, 2014, cover price $90.00

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9781472513106 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 8, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18.

Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew

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By Max Egremont

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9780374280321 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 10, 2014, cover price $28.00

9781447241997 | Pan Macmillan, May 8, 2014, cover price $32.75

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9780374535445 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 5, 2015), cover price $16.00

9780380795956, titled "Night on Fire" | Reprint edition (Avon Books, January 1, 2001), cover price $6.99 | also contains Night on Fire | About this edition: U.

9780314027788, titled "Introduction to Physical Anthropology" | 6th edition (West Group, February 1, 1994), cover price $50.95 | also contains Introduction to Physical Anthropology

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry

By Jeremy Noel-tod (editor)

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9780199640256 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 18, 2013), cover price $71.00

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9780198704850 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2014), cover price $21.95

Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry

Product Description: Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century...read more

By Nigel Alderman

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9780470657317 | Blackwell Pub, January 28, 2014, cover price $106.00 | About this edition: Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century.

Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time and Locale

By Christine Kennedy

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9781846319778, titled "Women's Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970-2010: Body, Time & Locale" | Liverpool Univ Pr, December 15, 2013, cover price $99.95

Knowing One's Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry: Zagajewski, Mahon, Heaney, Hartwig

Studies how poets from two postcolonial countries, Ireland and Poland, refuse the consolations of roots and belonging, and search for non-traditional modes of exploring identity.

By Magdalena Kay

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9781441116420 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 23, 2012, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Studies how poets from two postcolonial countries, Ireland and Poland, refuse the consolations of roots and belonging, and search for non-traditional modes of exploring identity.

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9781623562816 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 7, 2013), cover price $39.95

The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War

Product Description: The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war...read more

By Santanu Das (editor)

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9781107018235 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 18, 2013, cover price $84.99 | About this edition: The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work.

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9781107692954 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2013, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

By Peter Robinson (editor)

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9780199596805 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2013, cover price $150.00

The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry

Product Description: This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to 'State terrorism.' It identifies some historical moments of ruptures such as the persecution of the Celtic druids by the Romans, the killing of the Welsh bards by Edward 1, the appropriation of the bardic materials by the Romantic poets writing in a post-French Revolution era, and the Beatnik response to a post-World War bi-polar world in order to contextualize and discuss the poets of British Poetry Revival writing under Thatcherism...read more

By Shamsad Mortuza

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9781443842082 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, January 1, 2013, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to 'State terrorism.

Class and the Canon: Constructing Labouring-class Poetry and Poetics, 1780-1900

Product Description: Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets...read more

By Mina Gorji (editor)

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9781137030320 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 24, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets.

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