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EDITED BY

WOLFGANG GÖRTSCHACHER AND

DAVID MALCOLM

This edition first published 2021

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Names: Görtschacher, Wolfgang, 1960– editor. | Malcolm, David, 1952– editor.

Title: A companion to contemporary British and Irish poetry, 1960–2015 / edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher, David Malcolm.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2021. | Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 103 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020013124 (print) | LCCN 2020013125 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118843208 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118843246 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781118843253 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: English poetry–20th century–History and criticism. | English poetry–21st century–History and criticism. | Irish poetry–20th century–History and criticism. | Irish poetry–21st century–History and criticism.

Classification: LCC PR611 .C65 2020 (print) | LCC PR611 (ebook) | DDC 821/.91409–dc23

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Paul Batcheloris an associate professor of English literature and creative writing at Durham University. He wrote his PhD on Barry MacSweeney's poetry at Newcastle University, and edited Reading Barry MacSweeney (NCLA/Bloodaxe, 2013). His poetry collections are The Sinking Road (Bloodaxe, 2008) and The Love Darg (Clutag, 2014). He reviews for the Times Literary Supplement .

Daniel Bourneis a poet, translator of poetry from Polish, editor, and professor of English and environmental studies at The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, where he has taught creative writing and poetry since 1988. He attended Indiana University (Bloomington), where he received his Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature and history in 1979, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in 1987. He was a Fulbright fellow in Poland between 1985 and 1987. Bourne is an editor and founder of the Artful Dodge literary magazine.

Prudence Chamberlainis a lecturer in creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of The Feminist Fourth Wave: Affective Temporality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and the coauthor of House of Mouse (KFS, 2016). Her poetry reviews have featured in Poetry Review , Hix Eros , and Shearsman Magazine , and her critical writing on feminism in both Gender and Education (2016) and Social Movement Studies (2014).

Ian C. Davidsonis a poet and a critic. His recent poetry publications include Gateshead and Back (Crater, 2017), On the Way to Work (Shearsman, 2017), In Agitation (KFS, 2014), and The Tyne and Wear Poems (Red Squirrel, 2014). He edited the special Bill Griffiths issue for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry , and has published extensively on space and poetry and poetics. His recent critical work has examined relationships between mobility and writing in the work of Diane di Prima, George and Mary Oppen, Philip K. Dick, and Patrick Hamilton. After living in Wales for most of his life, he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne and then Dublin, where he works in UCD as professor of English, Drama and Film.

Hugh Dunkerleyis reader in creative writing and contemporary poetry at the University of Chichester in the United Kingdom, where he runs the MA in creative writing. He is a critic and poet. His most recent poetry collections are Hare (2010) and Kin (both Cinnamon Press 2019).

Gareth Farmeris a lecturer in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. He is the coeditor of the open access Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry .