Product Description: This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard’s axiomatic contention that poetry is the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form...read more

Product Description: Iain Sinclair has a growing reputation as a novelist and writer of documentary non¡-fiction. This study covers his major works, but also seeks to trace the connections between the writings and his earlier books of poetry.

Product Description: This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the work of important British poet Lee Harwood, across the whole range of his writing. It examines the work - both poetry and prose - in terms of influence, poetics, gender, sexuality, and eco-politics...read more

Product Description: Tin Pan Arcadia is the largest showing from the author's network of texts called Twentieth Century Blues. Ranging in subject matter from the Gulf War to the erotic delights of the Earl of Rochester, from the political underbelly of the modern world to the surreal capers of his recurring characters George and Pearl, the book can be grim or funny, or both at once...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Between 1989 and 2000, Robert Sheppard worked on a long network of texts called Twentieth Century Blues, of which THE LORES forms "the knotted core." Previous volumes in the series include EMPTY DIARIES (also carried by SPD), of which Tim Wood wrote that it was "one of the more important poetry books of 1998...read more

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