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Sarah Broom provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry. The book covers work by poets from a wide range of ethnic and regional backgrounds and covers a broad range of poetic styles, including mainstream names like Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy alongside more marginal and experimental poets like Tom Raworth and Geraldine Monk. Contemporary British and Irish Poetry tackles the most compelling and contentious issues facing poetry today.

INDICE: Introduction; 'Wanna yoo scruff': Class Politics - Tom Leonard, Tony Harrison, Don Paterson; 'My tongue is full of old ideas': Race and Ethnicity - Benjamin Zephaniah, Jackie Kay, Moniza Alvi; Gender, Sex and Embodiment - Simon Armitage, Grace Nichols, Carol Ann Duffy; 'Widdershins round the kirk-yaird': Gender, Sexuality and Nation - Eavan Boland, Kathleen Jamie, Gillian Clarke, David Kinloch; 'A fusillade of question marks': Poetry and the Troubles in Northern Ireland - Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley; Ciaran Carson; 'A rustle of echoes': Self, Subjectivity and Agency - David Dabydeen, Paul Muldoon, Denis... Etc.