Dirk Wiemann is Chair in English Literature at University of Potsdam, Germany. He is author of Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English (2008) and Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction (2019, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller), and editor of numerous collections, including Postcolonial Justice (2017, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller).

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1. Introduction: In the gutter ...1.1 Gutter texts and the politics of form1.2 Verse novels as gutter texts1.3 Gappiness and incompleteness1.4 Connexionism and minor cosmopolitanisms1.5 Gappy planet and incomplete nation: Michael Cawood Green’s Sinking2. Volcanic verses: The planet as verb2.1 Sibylline cures: Derek Walcott’s Omeros2.2 ‘Links between geology and character’: Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red 2.3 The space that connects: Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela2.4 The planet as praxis: W.S. Merwin’s The Folding Cliffs3. In/verse Britain: The poetics of the post-nation3.1 A million epiphanies now: Kae Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos3.2 ‘But I dreamt of creating mosaics’: Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe3.3 Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales3.4 Untelling tales: Anagrammatic Blackness in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!4. Epilogue: … looking at the starsBibliographyIndex

Wiemann has contributed a new dimension to and a fresh outlook on the discourse of the verse novel by drawing extensively and impressively on existing research. Both riveting and thought-provoking as well as enlightening and entertaining, Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts is certainly an important and timely reference book for students and scholars of anglophone literature.

Dirk Wiemann is Chair in English Literature at University of Potsdam, Germany. He is author of Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English (2008) and Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction (2019, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller), and editor of numerous collections, including Postcolonial Justice (2017, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller).

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1. Introduction: In the gutter ...1.1 Gutter texts and the politics of form1.2 Verse novels as gutter texts1.3 Gappiness and incompleteness1.4 Connexionism and minor cosmopolitanisms1.5 Gappy planet and incomplete nation: Michael Cawood Green’s Sinking2. Volcanic verses: The planet as verb2.1 Sibylline cures: Derek Walcott’s Omeros2.2 ‘Links between geology and character’: Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red 2.3 The space that connects: Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela2.4 The planet as praxis: W.S. Merwin’s The Folding Cliffs3. In/verse Britain: The poetics of the post-nation3.1 A million epiphanies now: Kae Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos3.2 ‘But I dreamt of creating mosaics’: Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe3.3 Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales3.4 Untelling tales: Anagrammatic Blackness in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!4. Epilogue: … looking at the starsBibliographyIndex

Wiemann has contributed a new dimension to and a fresh outlook on the discourse of the verse novel by drawing extensively and impressively on existing research. Both riveting and thought-provoking as well as enlightening and entertaining, Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts is certainly an important and timely reference book for students and scholars of anglophone literature.

Dirk Wiemann is Chair in English Literature at University of Potsdam, Germany. He is author of Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English (2008) and Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction (2019, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller), and editor of numerous collections, including Postcolonial Justice (2017, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller).

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1. Introduction: In the gutter ...1.1 Gutter texts and the politics of form1.2 Verse novels as gutter texts1.3 Gappiness and incompleteness1.4 Connexionism and minor cosmopolitanisms1.5 Gappy planet and incomplete nation: Michael Cawood Green’s Sinking2. Volcanic verses: The planet as verb2.1 Sibylline cures: Derek Walcott’s Omeros2.2 ‘Links between geology and character’: Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red 2.3 The space that connects: Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela2.4 The planet as praxis: W.S. Merwin’s The Folding Cliffs3. In/verse Britain: The poetics of the post-nation3.1 A million epiphanies now: Kae Tempest’s Let Them Eat Chaos3.2 ‘But I dreamt of creating mosaics’: Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe3.3 Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales3.4 Untelling tales: Anagrammatic Blackness in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!4. Epilogue: … looking at the starsBibliographyIndex

Wiemann has contributed a new dimension to and a fresh outlook on the discourse of the verse novel by drawing extensively and impressively on existing research. Both riveting and thought-provoking as well as enlightening and entertaining, Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts is certainly an important and timely reference book for students and scholars of anglophone literature.