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Robert Sheppard: The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and its Discontents
1950-2000

The Poetry of Saying presents a history and social development of
alternative forms of British poetry, still little examined or dismissed, set
against the context of the development of the Movement Orthodoxy, those
writers who followed and attenuated the tradition of Philip Larkin, even as
Larkin’s cultural capital fell. Ranging from the quiet work of Lee Harwood
to the avant-gardism of Bob Cobbing, from the major works of Roy Fisher to
the still developing sonic and semantic experiments of Maggie O’Sullivan,
from the linguistically innovative work of Allen Fisher to the indeterminate
works of Adrian Clarke, and covering a number of other writers in the
historical chapters, including Prynne, Sinclair and Bill Griffiths, this
work is theorised in terms of a poetry of saying, which aims to keep
interpretations maximally open. This theoretical perspective, which is
balanced against the historicising element, uses Bakhtin and Levinas as its
touchstones, and reaches its highest pitch with relation to the work of Tom
Raworth, which it argues is ethically open through its textual strategies.
Sheppard himself says of The Poetry of Saying: ‘This book has been many
years in the making, the critical counter-word to my development as a poet.
It includes nearly everything I want to say about British Poetry in the
second half of the twentieth century.’ It is the author’s critical magnum
opus.

 

 

Contents:

 

Introduction: Technique: Dialogue: Saying

Chapter One: The Movement Poets and the Movement Orthodoxy in the 1950s and
1960s

Chapter Two: The British Poetry Revival 1960-1978

Chapter Three: Starting to Make the World: The Poetry of Roy Fisher

Chapter Four: Keeping the Doors Open: The Poetry of Lee Harwood

Chapter Five: The Persistence of the Movement Orthodoxy in the 1980s and
1990s

Chapter Six: Linguistically Innovative Poetry 1978-2000

Chapter Seven: What Was To One Side or Not Real: The Poetry of Tom Raworth

Chapter Eight: Creative Linkage in the Work of Allen Fisher, Adrian Clarke
and Ulli Freer

Chapter Nine: The Ballet of the Speech Organs: The Poetry of Bob Cobbing

Chapter Ten: Be come, Be spoke, Be eared: The Poetics of Transformation and
Embodied Utterance in the work of Maggie O’Sullivan

 

Published now by Liverpool University Press at £50 hardback.

 

isbn 0853238197

 

See further details available at:

 

 www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3630
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Some excerpts from Chapters two and six are available as The History of the
Other on Pages blogzine at www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
<http://www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com/>

 

 

 

 

See PAGES blogzine online at www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
<http://www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com> .
 
Read a profile of Robert Sheppard at
www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poets/Sheppard.htm
<http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poets/Sheppard.htm> .
 
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