Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry ISBN: 9781349193974 Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited Subjects: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection;
The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.