Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960–1975

Nicola Thomas is Stipendiary Lecturer in German at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, UK. Her research examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry in English and German.

• 1. Introduction: the case for comparison.- 2. Language as landscape in J. H. Prynne and Paul Celan.- 3. Excavation, expansion and enclosure: Paul Celan’s ‘Engführung’ (1959) and J. H. Prynne’s ‘The Glacial Question, Unsolved’ (1969).- 4. Negotiating home in the work of Derek Mahon and Sarah Kirsch.- 5. Form and community: Derek Mahon’s ‘Beyond Howth Head’ (1972) and Sarah Kirsch’s ‘Wiepersdorf’ cycle (1973).- 6. Remapping space and place in Edwin Morgan and Ernst Jandl.- 7. Public space and power: Edwin Morgan’s ‘The Starlings in George Square’ (1968) and Ernst Jandl’s ‘wien: heldenplatz’ (1966).- 8. Conclusion: geometries and geographies of comparison.