Contemporary British poetry: essays in theory and criticism

Donald Davie and the failure of Englishness / Antony Easthope

The poetry of Roy Fisher / John Matthias

Poets of A Various Art: J.H. Prynne, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Andrew Crozier / Edward Larrissy

Poetry and the women's movement in postwar Britain / Clair Buck

Ian Hamilton Finlay and concrete poetry / Nicholas Zurbrugg

From myth into history: the later poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes / Paul Giles

Poetry of the committed individual: Jon Silkin, Tony Harrison, Geoffrey Hill, and the poets of postwar Leeds / Romana Huk

"Upon the slippery place"; or, In the Shit: Geoffrey Hill's writing and the failures of postmodern memory / R.K. Meiners

"Look for the doing words": Carol Ann Duffy and questions of convention / Linda Kinnahan

Postfeminist poetry?: "one more word for balls" / Vicki Bertram

Bass History is a-moving: black men's poetry in Britain / Alastair Niven

Accent and identity: women poets of many parts / C.L. Innes

From the lost ground: Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn, and contemporary Scottish poetry / Cairns Craig

Wales and the cultural politics of identity: Gillian Clarke, Robert Minhinnick, and Jeremy Hooker / Linden Peach.