Overview
- Emphasizes the importance of reading and multimedia performance in gaining readership of poetry
- Provides an account of twentieth-century poetry performance through archives, case studies, and interviews
- Features exclusive interviews conducted by the author with Allen Fisher and Denise Riley
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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About this book
This book examines intersections of poetry and performance during the British Poetry Revival. Its investigations are centered on four specific performance events: The First International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965; Denise Riley’s first public reading at the Cambridge Poetry Festival in 1977; Eric Mottram’s Pollock Record; and Allen Fisher’s Blood Bone Brain. Drawing upon a range of archival resources, recordings, and interviews, Juha Virtanen offers engaging and detailed “archaeological” accounts and analyses of these largely unexamined events as well as the potential dialogues between them. The appendices of the book also feature previously unpublished interviews with both Fisher and Riley.
This book is essential reading for poetry and performance enthusiasts, particularly those interested in innovative British Poetry.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Juha Virtanen is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Kent. His writing on English and American poetry has appeared in Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Shearsman Review, the edited collection News from Afar, and elsewhere. His own poetry publications include Back Channel Apraxia (2014) and –LAND (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Poetry and Performance During the British Poetry Revival 1960–1980
Book Subtitle: Event and Effect
Authors: Juha Virtanen
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58211-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58210-8Published: 07 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86350-4Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58211-5Published: 23 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 209
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature