Module Identifier | EN34020 | ||
Module Title | POETRY BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT-UK POETRY SINCE 70S-REMAPPING | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Peter T Barry | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours Seminar. 10 x 2 hrs | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 essays (2,500 words each) | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
1. 'Border Countries' Carol Ann Duffy (Penguin Modern Poets, Vol. 2)*
Uses a specific reading technique (set out in a hand-out document entitled 'Working with a Poem') as a starter. Also considers what determines the placing of a poet in canonical territory or in the 'exclusion zone'.
2. 'Outside History?' Eavan Boland (Penguin Modern Poets, Vol. 2)*
How does a woman poet inscribe herself in a masculine and national tradition of poetry? Does this major Irish poet suggest a way forward for UK women poets?
3. 'LIP' Poetry - Being a Woman Being a Poet:
Linguistically Innovative Poetries from Carlyle Reedy, Geraldine Monk, and Maggie O'Sullivan. The most extreme forms of experimentation in poetry have been one of the distinct realms of women's poetry. How do readers get into these performance and visual texts?
B. NEW CONSTITUENCIES
4. 'Have You Been Here Long?' - Black British Poetry
Selections from Kamu Brathwaite, James Berry ('Lucy' poems), Fred D'Aguiar ('Mama Dot' poems), Jean 'Binta' Breeze, John Agard, (Some audio-taped material will be used)
5-6 'Planet Alice'
Making For Planet Alice: New Women Poets, ed. Maura Dooley (Bloodaxe Books, 1997)* A lively and outspoken anthology of women poets who made their reputations in the 1990s.
7. The 'New Generation' Poets: or 'Oh No, Not the New Rock and Roll Again'
Poetry as a commercial 'product' - the 'moment' of 1994, as seen in a 'Southbank Show' Video.
C. PAPER CITIES
8. 'Birmingham's What I Think With'
Roy Fisher, The Dow Low Drop: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 1996)* These sessions consider the laid-back urban annotations of Roy Fisher's Birmingham poems (with audio-tape material)
9. 'The Hard Lyric' - A Liverpool Poet
Matt Simpson, An Elegy for the Galosherman: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 1990)* Another poet with street-cred (rather than country-lane cred). The contemporary poetry of the city.
10. 'Barefoot in King's Cross' - Visions of London
Poetry which re-writes London as a web of multi-layered, historical, cultural, & mystical deposits. These include Ian Sinclair's Lud Heat, Aidan Dun's Vale Royal [taped extracts].
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
TEXTS FOR PURCHASE, INDICATED WITH AN ASTERISK IN THE WEEK-BY-WEEK LISTINGS ABOVE, ARE ALSO LISTED BELOW. OTHER USEFUL ITEMS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
(1) POETRY ANTHOLOGIES
SIMON ARMITAGE AND ROBERT CRAWFORD, EDS. PENGUIN BOOK OF POETRY [UK & US, POST 1950] (PENGUIN 1998)
RICHARD CADDELL AND PETER QUARTERMAIN, EDS. OTHER BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY SINCE 1970 (WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999)
MICHAEL HULSE, ET AL, EDS. THE NEW POETRY (BLOODAXE 1993)
ANDREW MOTION AND BLAKE MORRISON, EDS. PENGUIN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POETRY (PENGUIN 1982)
SEAN O'BRIEN, ED. THE FIREBOX; POETRY IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND AFTER 1945 (PICADOR 1998)
MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN, ED. OUT OF EVERYWHERE; INNOVATIVE POETRIES BY WOMEN (REALITY STREET EDITIONS 1996)
IAIN SINCLAIR, ED. CONDUCTORS OF CHAOS; A POETRY ANTHOLOGY (PICADOR, 1996)
(2) POETRY CRITICISM
JAMES ACHESON, CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POETRY; ESSAYS IN THEORY AND CRITICISM & ROMANA HUK, (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS 1996)
PETER BARRY, INNER CITIES: WRITING THE CITY IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POETRY, (MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS 2000)
DAVID BUCHBINDER, CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY AND THE READING OF POETRY (MACMILLAN, 1991)
A. EASTHOPE & JOHN O.THOMPSON, EDS CONTEMPORARY POETRY MEETS MODERN THEORY, (HARVESTER, 1991)
R. G. HAMPSON & PETER BARRY, EDS., NEW BRITISH POETRIES: THE SCOPE OF THE POSSIBLE, (MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS 1993)
ROD MENGHAM, VANISHING POINTS: ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY , (MACMILLAN, 1993)
SEAN O'BRIEN, DEREGULATED MUSE: ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY, (BLOODAXE 1995)
DENISE RILEY, ED., POETS ON WRITING: BRITAIN 1970-1991, (MACMILLAN 1992)
ALAN ROBINSON, INSTABILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH POETRY (MACMILLAN 1988)
LIZ YORKE, IMPERTINENT VOICES, SUBVERSIVE STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY, WOMEN'S POETRY, (ROUTLEDGE 1991)