Luke Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King’s College London. He is the author of Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things (2017), which was nominated for the University English first book prize. His writing has appeared in ELH, Textual Practice, The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and elsewhere.He is co-editor, with Sam Ladkin, of the work of Mark Hyatt, including So Much For Life: Selected Poems (2023), and the novel Love, Leda (2023). He also edited Barry MacSweeney, Desire Lines: Unselected Poems: 1966–2000 (2018), and was co-editor of Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer (2014).His books of poetry include Home Radio (2021), and his poems have been published in Chicago Review, Ludd Gang, Cambridge Literary Review and many other little magazines. With Amy Tobin he edits the small press Distance No Object.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Living in HistoryPart I1. Possessing the Landscape: Kamau Brathwaite in England, 1950–19552. Lovely, Flaring, Destruction: J.H. Prynne, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn3. The Avant-Garde of Their Own People: Poetry and Exile, 1959–1975Part II:4. Driven Out of the Town: Homosexuality and the British Poetry Revival5. Living in Feminism: Denise Riley and Wendy Mulford6. Yout Rebels: Refusal and Self-Defence 1970–19797. Grave Police Music: Anti-Carceral Poetics8. Fear of Retribution: Anna Mendelssohn Coda: The Kind of Poetry I WantSelect BibliographyIndex

Luke Roberts’s Living in History is an important addition to scholarship about British poetry after World War II. Deftly weaving together archival research, personal reflection, and fresh interpretations of poems, Roberts significantly broadens our sense of the relationship between post-war British poetry and the myriad political movements that shaped it.

Luke Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King’s College London. He is the author of Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things (2017), which was nominated for the University English first book prize. His writing has appeared in ELH, Textual Practice, The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and elsewhere.He is co-editor, with Sam Ladkin, of the work of Mark Hyatt, including So Much For Life: Selected Poems (2023), and the novel Love, Leda (2023). He also edited Barry MacSweeney, Desire Lines: Unselected Poems: 1966–2000 (2018), and was co-editor of Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer (2014).His books of poetry include Home Radio (2021), and his poems have been published in Chicago Review, Ludd Gang, Cambridge Literary Review and many other little magazines. With Amy Tobin he edits the small press Distance No Object.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Living in HistoryPart I1. Possessing the Landscape: Kamau Brathwaite in England, 1950–19552. Lovely, Flaring, Destruction: J.H. Prynne, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn3. The Avant-Garde of Their Own People: Poetry and Exile, 1959–1975Part II:4. Driven Out of the Town: Homosexuality and the British Poetry Revival5. Living in Feminism: Denise Riley and Wendy Mulford6. Yout Rebels: Refusal and Self-Defence 1970–19797. Grave Police Music: Anti-Carceral Poetics8. Fear of Retribution: Anna Mendelssohn Coda: The Kind of Poetry I WantSelect BibliographyIndex

Luke Roberts’s Living in History is an important addition to scholarship about British poetry after World War II. Deftly weaving together archival research, personal reflection, and fresh interpretations of poems, Roberts significantly broadens our sense of the relationship between post-war British poetry and the myriad political movements that shaped it.

Luke Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King’s College London. He is the author of Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things (2017), which was nominated for the University English first book prize. His writing has appeared in ELH, Textual Practice, The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and elsewhere.He is co-editor, with Sam Ladkin, of the work of Mark Hyatt, including So Much For Life: Selected Poems (2023), and the novel Love, Leda (2023). He also edited Barry MacSweeney, Desire Lines: Unselected Poems: 1966–2000 (2018), and was co-editor of Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer (2014).His books of poetry include Home Radio (2021), and his poems have been published in Chicago Review, Ludd Gang, Cambridge Literary Review and many other little magazines. With Amy Tobin he edits the small press Distance No Object.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Living in HistoryPart I1. Possessing the Landscape: Kamau Brathwaite in England, 1950–19552. Lovely, Flaring, Destruction: J.H. Prynne, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn3. The Avant-Garde of Their Own People: Poetry and Exile, 1959–1975Part II:4. Driven Out of the Town: Homosexuality and the British Poetry Revival5. Living in Feminism: Denise Riley and Wendy Mulford6. Yout Rebels: Refusal and Self-Defence 1970–19797. Grave Police Music: Anti-Carceral Poetics8. Fear of Retribution: Anna Mendelssohn Coda: The Kind of Poetry I WantSelect BibliographyIndex

Luke Roberts’s Living in History is an important addition to scholarship about British poetry after World War II. Deftly weaving together archival research, personal reflection, and fresh interpretations of poems, Roberts significantly broadens our sense of the relationship between post-war British poetry and the myriad political movements that shaped it.