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101 Ways to Make Poems Sell
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Synopsis 101 Ways to Make Poems Sell is an insider’s guide to the poetry business, focusing on the issues that matter: building profile, finding readers and selling books. Hamilton-Emery offers...
Poetry Wars
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SynopsisPoetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over...
The Salt Companion to Bill Griffiths
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SynopsisGriffiths has one of the finest ears – for song, for varieties and cadences of speech – of any poet writing today. His compacted lyrics flash with intelligence and humour....
The Lyric Touch
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SynopsisThe Lyric Touch gathers John Wilkinson’s essays on British and American poetry of the late twentieth century and on poetics, several of them referenced in standard works despite being hard...
The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan
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SynopsisMaggie O’Sullivan has been a significant force in the alternative British poetry scene since the 1970s. Her international reputation has continued to grow and she is widely regarded as one...
The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
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SynopsisThe Salt Companion to Mina Loy comprises ten essays by leading scholars and writers on the work of modernist poet Mina Loy. Loy (1882-1966) formed part of the new generation...
On Listening
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SynopsisOn Listening is a collection of essays on poetry, written for various occasions over the last few years. Ranging from scholarly papers to literary non-fiction, critical writing to lectures, each...
Where the People Are
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SynopsisWilliam Sydney Graham (1918–1986) is increasingly acknowledged as one of the most important British poets of the twentieth century. In playful but profound exercises in self-reflexivity, such as ‘Implements in...
The Salt Companion to Lee Harwood
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SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the work of important British poet Lee Harwood, from his earliest writing as a follower of French Surrealism and...
Bloomsbury and British Theatre
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SynopsisThe story this book reveals has never been told before. Everyone knows about the Bloomsbury Group and their influence on art and style, on literature, life and manners, even on...
The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk
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SynopsisThis exciting volume combines the diverse talents of an impressive range of writer-critics in an engaged and lively response to the poetry of Geraldine Monk. Monk’s reputation as one of...
Origins of the Underground
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SynopsisThe background to Origins of the Underground is really the story of how British poets became intellectuals. As they retreated from inherited and fixed value systems, they had to think...
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism
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Synopsis This book is not another critical biography, but an interpretive essay investigating what we feel is the cultural and historical importance of Zappa and Beefheart in the context of...
Firing the Canon
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Synopsis This book is not for the general reader, but written in a direct, personal manner, should also interest those who are not specialists in the subjects discussed. Covering 200...
Wallace Stevens
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SynopsisA new study of the major poems of Wallace Stevens, which have been very influential both in accounts of American modernism and on later poetries. The book aims to address...
Uncertain Poetries
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SynopsisThis book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Rilke, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Niedecker, Duncan and...
The Salt Companion to Richard Berengarten
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SynopsisThis book, which accompanies the volumes published in the Salt Selected Writings series, guides readers through the many-faceted poetic output of Richard Berengarten (formerly Burns). Berengarten has been a crucial...
The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson
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SynopsisWith eight superb collections of poems as well as a Carcanet Selected, editor of the important Cambridge school journal Perfect Bound in the 1970s, author of three monographs on twentieth...
The Salt Companion to John Matthias
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SynopsisThe years 1995-2010 were particularly fertile for John Matthias. In that time, he published five critically acclaimed books of poetry, two pamphlets, two collaborations (a translation and an anthology); and...
The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes
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Synopsis“The one right word,” as he writes in ‘The Poet’s Paradise,’ has long been a Jim Barnes desideratum. Across an illustrious literary career that has produced nine volumes of verse...
The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom
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SynopsisThe Salt Companion to Harold Bloom is a major event in literary criticism. Edited by Graham Allen (University College Cork) and Roy Sellars (University of Southern Denmark, Kolding), the collection...
The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy
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SynopsisDiane Glancy is one of the outstanding Native American authors of modern times. Working in multiple genres – poetry, novel, theatre and nonfiction – she has created a vast, ceaselessly...
The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein
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SynopsisThe Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein presents scholarship on one of the U.S.’s best living innovative poets. Scholars explore major themes in his work, and poets present pieces inspired by...
The Salt Companion to Carter Revard
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SynopsisThe Salt Companion to Carter Revard is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays on the poetry and scholarship of one of Native America’s most loved and respected poets. Carter Revard,...
The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry
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SynopsisHow modern is modern? How does the new come to be the surface which makes the personality visible? How does an offset become a peak? One of the key differences...
Stressing the Modern
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SynopsisStressing the Modern: Cultural Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry is the first major study of women’s poetic careers in early twentieth-century Australia. This was a particularly prolific period for women...
Speaking the Estranged
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SynopsisSpeaking the Estranged brings together the work by Michael Heller on the distinguished American Objectivist poet George Oppen (1908-1984), written over the past twenty years since Heller's first book on...
Read it Again
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SynopsisThis is a wide-ranging, incisive study of contemporary poetry, its predicament and its rich traditions. While it focusses on Australian cultural conditions, it sees them in terms of the English-language...
Poetry Wars
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SynopsisPoetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over...
Only by Failure
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SynopsisOnly by creativity and the risk of failure can one succeed. This book is the first attempt to trace the life of Terence Gray, a man who always wanted to...
Meaning Performance
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SynopsisThis is an extraordinary and genuinely groundbreaking study of the most challenging contemporary poetry written today in both USA and UK. Presented originally as a series of public lectures and...
Living with the Earth
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SynopsisThis book is about the relationship between humans and the earth, people and place, culture and nature. It argues that the concepts and categories of natural history, scientific ecology, landscape...
Justifying the Margins
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SynopsisIn this collection of essays, poet, translator, anthologist and critic Pierre Joris extends his “nomad poetics” to a remarkable zigzagging on the margins of twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and...
Iain Sinclair
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SynopsisThis study represents the first comprehensive study of Iain Sinclair’s writing, covering his key texts from the early 1970s to the present. It features individual chapters analyzing Lud Heat, White...
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism
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SynopsisThis book is not another critical biography, but an interpretive essay investigating what we feel is the cultural and historical importance of Zappa and Beefheart in the context of a...
Don’t Start Me Talking
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SynopsisNamed for a Sonny Boy Williamson song, this is a collection of interviews with 20 modern poets. The subjects are Kelvin Corcoran, Simon Smith, Michael Haslam, David Chaloner, Elisabeth Bletsoe,...
Before Starting Over
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SynopsisBefore Starting Over is an informal chronicle of several important developments in English-language poetry during the nineties and the turn of the century, most importantly Asian American poetry, digital poetics,...
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