EN 5213 THE NEW POETRY Barnard Turner & Rajeev S Patke
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Course Description |
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This year this module will set itself two different but complementary goals in its discussion of contemporary (post-1962) Anglo/North American as well as Irish poetry in English: an examination of the content and methods of selection of two leading, and widely-available poetry anthologies, beginning with A. Alvarez’s The New Poetry, which introduced a whole new generation of controversial American poets to England and in a sense contributed to that climate of opinion which is now generically known as “the Sixties” there; and The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990), which confirmed that region as a leading force in contemporary poetry in English. These two themes—the personal and the geopolitical—and their negotiations of centres and margins will be central to the other writers considered in more detail, including the Irishman Paul Muldoon, the Canadian Al Purdy, and the Scotsman Edwin Morgan; the interlacing of the personal and the political is also traced in the work of leading American poet Adrienne Rich.
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READING LIST PRIMARY TEXTS A.
Alvarez (ed) Penguin
Book of New Poetry (1962; Penguin 1992) ISBN: 0140585656 Peter
Fallon & Derek Mahon (eds.) The Penguin Book of Contemporary
Irish Poetry (Penguin, 1990) ISBN: 0140586091 Edwin
Morgan
New Selected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, 2000) ISBN: 1857544595 Paul
Muldoon New
and Selected Poems 1968-1994 (Faber 1996) ISBN: 0571177840 Al Purdy
Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996 (Vancouver:
Harbour, 1996) ISBN: 1550171488 Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich’s Poetry and Prose (New York: Norton, 1993),
eds. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi and Albert Gelpi. ISBN: 0393961478 |
SECONDARY
READING Davie, Donald
Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain
1960-1988 (1989) Heaney,
Seamus
The Redress of Poetry (1995) Larkin,
Philip Required
Writing (1983) Mole,
John Passing
Judgements: Poetry in the Eighties (1989) Muldoon,
Paul (ed.) The
Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1986) Schmidt,
Michael
Reading Modern Poetry (1989) Thwaite,
Anthony
Poetry Today: A Critical guide to British Poetry 1960-1995
(1996) On/By
Poets Corcoran, Neil
(ed.) The Chosen Ground: Essays on the
Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland (1992) Crawford,
Robert & Hamish
Whyte (eds.) About
Edwin Morgan (1990) Kenneally, Michael Poetry in Contemporary Irish
Literature (1994) Morgan, Edwin
Nothing Not Giving Messages: Reflections on His Work and Life
(1990) Purdy,
Al Starting
from Ameliasburgh: Collected Prose (1995)
Solecki, Sam
The Last Canadian Poet: An Essay on Al Purdy (1999)
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Continuous Assessment Students
will write TWO short papers, on specific, precise
topics. Essays must be about 1000 words AND NO LONGER.
Students will also give one short (10 min.) presentation, and there
will be a 2-hour final exam.
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Time-table: 2000/2001, Semester 2
Week 1 Jan 9 Introduction (BT/RSP)
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POETS FOR CLOSE READING from THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY IRISH POETRY Week 4 Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley Week 5 Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian Weeks 9/10 Paul Muldoon
NEW
WEATHER (1973): The Electric
Orchard
Hospital, The Year of the Sloes, for Ishi
MULES (1977): Lunch with Pancho Villa
by
Ribera, Mules
WHY BROWNLEE LEFT (1980):
The Boundary Commission
Promises,
Promises
QUOOF (1983): Gathering Mushrooms Has
the More a Man Wants
MEETING THE BRITISH (1987):
The Lass of Aughrim
MADOC: A MYSTERY (1990): The
Briefcase
SHINING BROW (1993): The
Reporter’s Quartet
THE PRINCE OF THE QUOTIDIAN (1994): Only a few weeks ago… I
look out the window…
THE ANNALS OF CHILE (1994): Milkweed
and Monarch
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LAST UPDATED 9 March 2001
