Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry

Luke Roberts is a Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King’s College London, UK. His writing on English and American poetry has appeared in Textual Practice, Chicago Review, PN Review and in edited collections such as Modernist Legacies (2014) and Accelerated Times (2016). In 2012, he co-edited Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer. His own poetry has been published widely.

• 1. ‘here we all are to greet you'.- 2. Books, Devices, Verbal Chicanery, and Cosmological Range.- 3. Strikers with Poems: from Green Cabaret to Black Torch.- 4. Seeing and Being Seen: Serial Poetry and Surveillance, 1970-1975.- 5. Into the Dangerous Decade: 1979-1982.- 6. Class and Representation: Wild Knitting to Hellhound Memos.- 7. Pearl on the Law.- 8. Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Future.- Bibliographies.- Index.