The New Poetry in Wales
by
Ian Gregson
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0708319955
ISBN-13
9780708319956
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 6th, 2007
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
186 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Demonstrates how contemporary Welsh poets, including Robert Minhinnick, Gwyneth Lewis, Oliver Reynolds and Stephen Knight and many others, have evolved techniques to explore the most pressing issues in modern culture. This book also explores how questions about language have acquired such significance, a particularly urgent theme for Welsh poets.
By evolving new techniques to explore todays most pressing issuesenvironmental destruction and the damage inflicted on the third world by global capitalismcontemporary Welsh poets are making some of the most exciting poetry in Britain. In addition to investigating these new methods of poetic inquiry, Ian Gregson in The New Poetry of Wales explores the issue of language, a particularly urgent concern for these poets who must choose between writing in English or Welsh. With penetrating analyses of a range of new poets, including Robert Minhinnick and Gwyneth Lewis, the former Welsh poet laureate, Gregsons book is an invaluable introduction to a robust field.
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