Beautiful Feelings of Sensitive People: Screen grabs of British Poetry in the 21st century

by Andrew Duncan

If you publish a book about contemporary poetry people expect you to identify the style distinctive for a decade or a generation - the Sound of Now. Of course, doing that would instantly define all the other poets as being non-central. My thesis is instead that since the cultural mechanism which authorises central styles broke down in the 1990s there are a dozen valid styles and even conformist poets have a great range to choose from. People may be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848619413
• ISBN13: 9781848619418
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"