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Abrioux, Yves, 245n83 “ Th e Dead Sea Poems”, 185 – 186 Achebe, Chinua, 61 Th e Dead Sea Poems , 185 , 186 Th ings Fall Apart , 61 “Five Eleven Ninety Nine”, 185 , Adair, Gilbert, 116 , 198 186 – 187 Adcock, Fleur, 53 , 173 “Goalkeeper with a Cigarette”, 185 Adorno, Th eodor, 222 “ Th e Tyre”, 185 African Writers Series, 61 Zoom! , 185 Agbabi, Patience, 163 , 198 , 210 Armitage, Simon and Robert Crawford Alcobia-Murphy, Shane, 245n1 , Th e Penguin Book of Poetry 247n45 from Britain and Ireland Since Alderman, Nigel, 70 , 217 , 233n20 1945 , 181 Aldington, Richard, 76 Arts Council, 9 , 131 , 183 , 246n2 Aldritt, Keith, 239n17 in England, 9 Ali, Agha Shahid, 60 in Northern Ireland, 9 , 131 Allen, Donald, 93 , 94 in Scotland, 9 Th e New American Poetry , 93 in Wales, 9 Allen, Michael, 247n17 Ashbery, John, 94 , 182 Allnutt, Gillian, 173 Association of Little Presses, 92 Altieri, Charles, 243n43 Astley, Neil, 209 , 210 , 250n40 Alvarez, Al, 1 , 25 – 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 155 , Auden, W.H., 9 – 10 , 11 , 12 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 156 , 181 25 , 49 , 176 , 185 Th e New Poetry , 1 , 25 – 26 , 27 , 29 , 181 Ball, Hugo, 117 Alvi, Moniza, 184 , 211 , 251n4 Lautgedichte , 117 Amis, Kingsley, 14 , 16 , 26 , 38 , 70 Bann, Stephen, 245n83 , 245n85 “Against Romanticism”, 16 Barker, George, 10 Anglo-Irish War, 126 , 130 Barnett, Anthony, 99 Anozie, Sunday O., 237n53 Barrell, John, 242n14 Apocalyptic poets, 10 – 11 , 12 , 15 , 33 Barry, Peter, 72 , 241n7 Apollinaire, Guillaume, 117 Bataille, George, 123 Calligrammes , 117 Batten, Guinn, 246n9 Apples and Snakes, 198 , 211 Battle of the Bogside, 128 Armitage, Simon, 181 , 184 , 185 – 187 , Baucom, Ian, 163 191 , 251n4 Baudelaire, Charles, 103 , 123

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BBC, 9 , 12 , 14 , 49 , 167 , 235n14 Brady, Andrea, 217 , 218 , 220 , Caribbean Voices , 49 223 , 224 Drama Now , 167 Mutability: Scripts for Infancy , 217 Th e Poet’s Voice (Poetry Now ), 9 Brathwaite, Doris, 55 Th ird Programme, 9 , 12 , 14 Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, 48 , 53 , Beat poets, 91 , 190 54 , 55 – 60 , 71 , 127 , 159 , 160 , 164 , Beauvoir, Simone de, 173 165 , 210 Beer, Patricia, 173 “Adowa”, 59 Belfast Group, 129 “All God’s Chillun”, 58 Bennett, Louise, 43 , 48 – 49 , 56 , Th e Arrivants , 56 – 60 , 71 , 164 60 , 198 “A t u m p a n ”, 5 9 Dialect Verses , 49 “Calypso”, 57 Jamaica Labrish , 49 Contradictory Omens: Cultural Benveniste, Asa, 92 Diversity and Integration in the Bergvall, Caroline, 208 , 214 – 217 , 226 Caribbean , 55 “About Face”, 215 – 217 Th e Development of Creole Society, Fig , 215 1770–1820 , 55 “Goan Atom”, 215 “Epilogue”, 58 “Middling English”, 215 Folk Culture of the Slaves in “Shorter Chaucer Tales”, 215 Jamaica , 55 “Via”, 215 “ Th e Forest”, 59 Berry, James, 157 , 164 , 210 Islands , 56 , 59 – 60 National Poetry Competition, 164 “Libation”, 58 News for Babylon: Th e Chatto “ Th e Making of the Drum”, 59 Book of West Indian-British “Mammon”, 58 Poetry , 157 Masks , 56 , 58 – 59 Berryman, John, 26 nation language, 55 – 56 , 57 , 59 , Betjeman, John, 9 61 , 160 Selected Poems , 9 “ Th e New Ships”, 59 Better Books, 28 , 93 “New World A-Comin”, 58 Beuys, Joseph, 196 “O Dreams O Destinations”, 58 Beveridge, Sir William, 4 “Postlude/Home”, 58 Report on Social Insurance and “ P r e l u d e ”, 5 8 Allied Services , 4 Rights of Passage , 48 , 55 , 56 – 58 Bhabha, Homi, 163 “ S o u t h ”, 5 8 Big Youth, 56 , 160 “Wings of a Dove”, 57 Bim , 49 Brearton, Fran, 246n6 Black Mountain poets, 71 , 91 , 93 Breeze, Jean “Binta”, 163 , 198 Blake, William, 10 , 39 , 40 , 124 Breiner, Lawrence, 58 , 237n51 Blanton, C.D., 70 , 86 , 217 Breslin, Paul, 236n16 Bloodaxe Books, 94 , 182 , 209 , 211 British Black Panthers, 160 Bloody Sunday (1972), 128 British Commonwealth, 6 , 7 , Boland, Eavan, 147 , 173 43 – 44 , 53 , 68 Bongo Jerry, 160 British Nationality Act (1981), Bottrall, Ronald, 208 44 , 163

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British Poetry Revival, 75 , 87 , 90 , Carson, Ciaran, 126 , 129 , 130 , 143 , 91 – 94 , 99 , 118 , 121 , 124 – 125 , 129 , 145 – 147 , 149 , 153 155 , 156 , 157 , 173 , 218 , 230 “Belfast Confetti”, 145 , 147 and American poetry, 93 – 94 Belfast Confetti , 145 Brixton Riots (1981), 161 “Hamlet”, 146 – 147 Broom, Sarah, 210 Th e Irish For No , 145 , 147 Brown, George Mackay, 83 Th e New Estate , 145 Brown, Stewart, 236n38 Carter, Martin, 46 – 48 , 53 Brown, Terence, 129 “I Clench My Fist”, 46 , 47 Bryson, Norman, 33 “A Mouth Is Always Muzzled”, 48 Bunting, Basil, 69 , 70 , 74 – 84 , 86 , 87 , Poems of Resistance from British 91 , 105 , 113 , 115 , 153 , 196 , Guiana , 46 , 48 207 , 217 “University of Hunger”, 47 Briggfl atts , 69 , 70 , 74 , 75 – 84 , 86 , Catling, Brian, 198 115 , 217 , 239n22 , 239n32 Catullus, 82 Collected Poems , 75 Causley, Charles, 10 Poems 1950 , 75 Cayley, John, 215 Redimiculum Matellarum , 75 Chatterton, Th omas, 113 Th e Spoils , 75 Chaucer, Geoff rey, 215 Burning Spear, 160 Th e Canterbury Tales , 215 Burns, Robert, 250n35 cheek, cris, 116 , 198 , 199 Burnside, John, 190 , 209 , 251n4 “Squat”, 199 Black Cat Bone , 209 Churchill, Winston, 4 , 152 Burroughs, William, 115 Cixous, Hélène, 148 , 174 Burton, Richard, 239n17 Claire, Paula, 116 Burton, Rosemary, 250n40 Clark, Heather, 245n1 Bush, Clive, 244n66 Clark, John Pepper, 62 Butler Act. See Education Act (1944) Clarke, Adrian, 116 Byrne, Sandie, 250n40 Clarke, Austin, 83 Clarke, Gillian, 173 , 179 , 210 Caddel, Ric, 157 , 239n17 “ C o fi ant”, 179 Caddel, Ric and Peter Quartermain Th e King of Britain’s Daughter , 173 Other: British and Irish Poetry since as National Poet of Wales, 210 1970 , 157 Cobbing, Bob, 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 99 , Cambridge Poetry Festival, 93 116 – 118 , 119 , 120 , 121 , Campaign for Nuclear 198 , 215 Disarmament, 26 An ABC in Sound , 117 Cape Golliard Press, 92 And , 92 Carcanet Press, 94 , 182 , 209 Th e Five Vowels , 117 Caribbean Artists Movement, 54 – 55 , Jade-Sound Poems , 117 160 Sensations of the Retina , 117 – 118 Caribbean Quarterly , 49 Six Sound Poems , 117 Carmichael, Stokely, 54 Writers Forum , 92 , 116 Black Power , 54 Cold War, 6 , 12 , 46 , 67 , 182 Carroll, Lewis, 152 Collymore, Frank, 49

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Colonial Development and Welfare Cruise O’Brien, Conor, 247n19 Acts (1940 and 1944), 43 Cunliff e, Dave, 92 Commonwealth Arts Festival, 53 Curtis, Tony, 247n17 Commonwealth Citizens Act (1962), 44 D’Aguiar, Fred, 161 , 178 , 210 Commonwealth Immigrants Act “Home”, 178 (1968), 44 Dabydeen, David, 165 – 166 , 176 , 184 , Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 164 210 , 251n4 Compendium (bookshop), 93 Coolie Odyssey , 165 Conquest, Robert, 15 – 16 , 17 , 18 , 20 , Slave Song , 165 25 , 26 , 27 , 29 , 33 , 155 , 181 Turner , 165 – 166 Th e Great Terror: Stalin’s Purges of Dante Alighieri, 75 , 152 , 215 the Th irties , 15 Commedia , 75 , 215 New Lines , 15 – 16 , 18 , 20 , 25 , 26 , 27 , Davie, Donald, 14 , 15 , 16 – 18 , 22 , 23 , 29 , 181 26 , 38 , 94 New Lines-II , 29 “Remembering the Th irties”, 16 – 18 Contemporary Experimental Women’s Articulate Energy , 15 , 38 Poetry Festival, 210 Th e Purity of Diction in English Cooke, Jennifer, 225 Verse , 15 Cope, Wendy, 173 Davis, Angela, 168 Corcoran, Neil, 245n1 , 246n17 Dawson, Ashley, 44 , 249n14 Corso, Gregory, 93 de Campos, Augustos, 120 Coughlan, Patricia, 247n19 Deane, Seamus, 247n19 Couzyn, Jeni, 157 , 173 , 210 Dennis Bovell Dub Band, 160 Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Deptford Fire (1981), 161 Women Poets , 157 , 210 Device, Alizon, 200 Crawford, Robert, 181 , 190 , 192 , Device, Demdike, 200 250n60 , 251n4 Device, Elizabeth, 200 , 201 “Inner Glasgow”, 192 Device, James, 200 “Scotland”, 192 Device, Jennet, 200 , 203 A Scottish Assembly , 192 Didsbury, Peter, 177 Talkies , 192 Dobran, Ryan, 243n56 Creeley, Robert, 98 , 119 Donaghy, Michael, 184 , 251n4 Critchley, Emily, 210 Donne, John, 205 Crozier, Andrew, 91 , 92 , 99 , 100 – 102 , Dorn, Ed, 94 104 , 116 , 157 , 182 , 233n36 , Dorward, Nate, 241n10 242n24 , 242n25 , 242n26 Douglas, Keith, 10 Duets , 100 Dowson, Jane, 173 “Free Running Bitch”, 100 D u ff y, Carol Ann, 84 , 173 , 184 , High Zero , 100 , 101 187 – 190 , 192 , 193 , 194 , 195 , 210 , Pleats , 100 251n4 , 252n15 Th e Veil Poem , 100 , 101 – 102 , 104 Th e Bees , 189 , 194 Crozier, Andrew and Tim Longville “ Th e Dolphins”, 188 Th e Grosseteste Review , 92 , 100 Feminine Gospels , 188 , 189 A Various Art , 91 , 99 , 100 , 157 , 182 “Head of School”, 187

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“A Healthy Meal”, 187 European Union, 7 “ Th e Laughter of Staff ord Girls’ Evaristo, Bernardine, 210 , 217 High”, 189 Th e Emperor’s Babe , 210 “ Th e Long Queen”, 189 Lara , 210 “ Th e Map-Woman”, 189 “Parliament”, 194 Faber and Faber, 10 , 11 , 33 , 34 , 94 , 209 , as Poet Laureate, 189 , 210 211 , 212 “Psychopath”, 188 Fainlight, Ruth, 173 Rapture , 189 Sibyls and Others , 173 “Standing Female Nude”, 188 Falklands War, 7 , 158 Standing Female Nude , 187 , 188 Fanon, Franz, 161 “Warming Her Pearls”, 189 Fantasy Press, 14 , 37 Th e World’s Wife , 173 , 188 , 193 Farrell, J.G., 141 Duhig, Ian, 251n4 Troubles , 141 Duncan, Andrew, 2 , 231n2 Fawkes, Guy, 186 , 200 Duncan, Robert, 123 Feinstein, Elaine, 93 Dunn, Douglas, 118 , 156 , 177 , 190 Fell, Alison, 173 “Galloway Motor Farm”, 177 Fencott, Clive, 116 For Love or Nothing , 177 Fenton, James, 158 , 179 Terry Street , 177 “A Nest of Vampires”, 158 Dunsmuir, Nessie, 34 “A S t a ff ordshire Murderer”, 158 Durrell, Lawrence, 10 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 93 Dworkin, Craig, 254n1 Ferry Press, 92 , 100 Festival of Britain, 43 Education Act (1944), 4 Figueroa, John, 49 Edwards, Ken, 92 , 199 Finch, Peter, 92 , 116 Eliot, T.S., 8 , 9 , 10 , 12 , 26 , 33 , 36 , 38 , Second Aeon , 92 39 , 40 , 49 , 57 , 63 , 75 , 79 , 98 , 102 , Finlay, Alec, 245n83 103 , 104 , 124 , 147 , 165 Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 53 , 91 , 92 , 99 , Four Quartets , 8 , 9 , 10 118 , 119 – 121 , 190 , 215 Th e Idea of a Christian Society , 8 “Acrobats”, 120 “Tradition and the Individual “ Th e Boat’s Blueprint”, 121 Talent”, 39 Th e Dancers Inherit the Party , 118 Th e Waste Land , 57 , 75 , 79 , 98 , Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd, Haw, an 124 , 147 Inseks, an, aw, a Fush , 118 Ellis, R.J., 241n4 Little Sparta, 120 , 121 Empson, William, 14 , 16 , 40 , 62 “Orkney Lyrics”, 118 Th e English Intelligencer , 99 – 100 , Poems to Hear and See , 121 113 , 222 Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. , 92 , 119 , Enright, D.J., 14 120 , 121 Poets of the 1950s , 14 Stony Path, 120 Entwistle, Alice, 173 , 252n29 “Wave Rock”, 121 Esonwanne, Uzoma, 237n53 Finlay, Sue, 120 E s t y , J e d , 6 9 Firdosi, 76 European Economic Community, 7 , 158 Shahnameh , 76

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Fisher, Allen, 94 , 116 , 121 – 124 , 182 , Galloping Dog Press, 92 217 , 245n86 Garnier, Pierre, 120 Gravity as a Consequence of Garrett, Elizabeth, 251n4 Shape , 217 Gascoyne, David, 10 Place , 121 – 124 , 217 , 245n86 Gikandi, Simon, 59 Fisher, Roy, 53 , 70 , 71 – 74 , 77 , 84 , 87 , Gilroy, Paul, 159 , 163 88 , 99 , 177 , 217 , 238n11 Ginsberg, Allen, 28 , 93 , 94 , 115 “By the Pond”, 73 Glissant, Édouard, 59 , 162 City , 70 , 71 , 72 – 74 , 77 , 84 , 88 , 217 , Glob, P.V., 135 , 136 , 138 , 139 238n11 Th e Bog People: Iron-Age Man Collected Poems , 72 Preserved , 135 Th e Cut Pages , 99 Good Friday Agreement (1998), 127 , “ Th e Entertainment of War”, 73 129 , 131 A Furnace , 71 , 177 , 250n61 Goodby, John, 12 “ Th e Hill Behind the Goode, Chris, 224 Town”, 73 Goodison, Lorna, 60 “Lullaby and Exhortation for the Goodman, Arnold (Lord), 184 Unwilling Hero”, 73 Görtschacher, Wolfgang, 241n4 “ N o r t h A r e a ”, 7 3 Graham, John J., 213 “ Th e Park”, 73 Shetland Dictionary , 213 “ Th e Poplars”, 73 Graham, W.S., 29 , 33 – 37 , 71 , 218 “Starting to Make a Tree”, 73 Collected Poems 1942–1977 , 34 “ Th e Sun Hacks”, 73 “ Th e Constructed Space”, 34 “ Th e Wind at Night”, 73 Implements in Th eir Places , 34 Flynn, Leontia, 248n45 Malcolm Mooney’s Land , 34 Focus , 49 New Collected Poems , 34 Forbes, Peter, 183 , 184 “ Th e Nightfi shing”, 35 – 37 , 71 , 218 Forde, Victoria, 239n18 Seven Journeys , 34 Forrest-Th omson, Veronica, 102 – 104 , Gray, Th omas, 170 105 , 174 “Elegy Written in a Country Identi-kit , 103 Churchyard”, 170 Language-Games , 103 Greenbank, John, 77 “Pastoral”, 103 – 104 Greenbank, Peggy, 77 , 78 On the Periphery , 103 Greenlaw, Lavinia, 194 , 251n4 Poetic Artifi ce , 102 – 103 “ Th e Recital of Lost Cities”, 194 Forward Prizes, 181 Gregson, Ian, 252n29 Francis, Matthew, 234n53 G r i ffi ths, Bill, 83 , 115 – 116 , 196 , 214 Fraser, G.S., 10 , 38 Cycles , 115 Freud, Sigmund, 10 , 66 Pirate Press, 116 Friedan, Betty, 173 War w/ Windsor , 115 Frost, Robert, 152 G r i ffi ths, Gareth, 61 Fulcrum Press, 72 , 75 , 92 Th e Gunpowder Plot, 200 Fuller, Roy, 10 Gunn, Th om, 14 , 16 , 26 , 28 Funkhauser, Chris, 255n15 “On the Move”, 16 , 28

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H.D. [Hilda Doolittle], 76 “ Th e Grauballe Man”, 135 , 136 – 137 , Hadfi eld, Jen, 208 , 212 – 214 , 216 138 , 139 Byssus , 212 , 214 Human Chain , 207 and T.S. Eliot Prize, 214 “Kinship”, 247n20 “In Memoriam”, 213 – 214 Nobel Prize, 181 Nigh-No-Place , 212 , 214 North , 130 , 134 – 140 Hall, Barry, 92 “Ocean’s Love to Ireland”, 135 Hall, Donald, 37 and Th e Penguin Book of Hall, Stuart, 163 Contemporary British Poetry , 156 Halsey, Alan, 93 , 199 , 244n73 “Punishment”, 135 , 136 , 137 – 138 Poetry Bookshop, 93 “Singing School”, 134 “Song-Cycle 1991”, 199 “Station Island”, 217 Hampson, Robert, 122 Station Island , 133 Hamsun, Knut, 152 “Strange Fruit”, 135 , 136 , 138 – 140 H a r d y , Th omas, 17 , 25 , 33 , 84 “ Th e Tollund Man”, 135 , 140 Harris, Wilson, 48 “ Th e Tollund Man in Harrison, Tony, 156 , 169 – 172 , 176 , Springtime”, 207 212 , 250n39 , 250n40 “Toome”, 133 Th e Loiners , 169 Wintering Out , 133 , 134 , 135 Th e School of Eloquence , 169 Heath, Edward, 184 v. , 169 , 170 – 172 , 212 Hebidge, Dick, 27 Harsent, David, 209 Hejinian, Lyn, 173 Fire Songs , 209 Hendry, J.F., 10 H a r t l e y , A n t h o n y , 1 4 Hendry, J.F. and Henry Treece Harwood, Lee, 93 , 94 Th e Crown and the Sickle , 10 Heaney, Seamus, 53 , 83 , 84 , 126 , 127 , Th e New Apocalypse , 10 129 , 130 , 131 , 133 – 140 , 141 , Th e White Horseman: Prose and 142 , 143 , 145 , 148 , 149 , 150 , 152 , Verse of the New Apocalypse , 10 153 , 155 , 156 , 158 , 181 , 182 , 195 , Hennessey, Th omas, 246n3 207 , 212 , 213 , 214 , 217 , 218 , 230 , Henri, Adrian, 27 231n5 , 246n17 , 246n9 , 247n19 , Herbert, George, 254n70 247n20 Herbert, W.N., 185 , 190 – 191 , 192 , 212 , “Act of Union”, 135 251n4 “Anahorish”, 133 “Cabaret McGonagall”, 185 , 191 “Bog Queen”, 135 , 136 , 137 , 247n20 Dundee Doldrums , 190 “Broagh”, 133 Sharawaggi , 190 “Churning Day”, 134 Herbert, W.N. and Richard Price “Come to the Bower”, 247n20 Contrafl ow on the Super Highway , 190 Death of a Naturalist , 129 , 133 , 134 Hewison, Robert, 238n3 “Digging”, 133 Hewitt, John, 68 , 83 , 129 District and Circle , 207 Hill, Geoff rey, 37 – 41 , 70 , 84 – 87 , 88 , Electric Light , 207 153 , 156 , 200 , 204 – 207 , 213 , “Feeling Into Words”, 135 253n64 , 254n70 Field Work , 133 Al Tempo de’ Tremuoti , 206 , 254n70

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Hill, Geoff rey (cont.) Hoggart, Richard, 69 “An Apology for the Revival Holiday, Billie, 140 of Christian Architecture in Homer, 111 , 131 , 217 England”, 204 Iliad , 217 Canaan , 205 , 254n70 Th e Honest Ulsterman , 129 Clavics , 254n70 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 40 , 115 , “Of Commerce and Society”, 40 196 , 201 Th e Daybooks , 205 , 206 , 253n64 , Th e Horn , 62 254n70 Horovitz, Michael, 28 “Elegiac Stanzas”, 40 Children of Albion: Poetry of the Expostulations on the Volcano , ‘Underground’in Britain , 28 254n70 Howard, Peter, 215 “Genesis”, 39 Howe, Susan, 173 “To the High Court of Hughes, Langston, 160 Parliament”, 205 Hughes, Ted, 25 , 26 , 65 – 67 , 69 , 84 , Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres , 86 , 103 , 126 , 156 , 181 , 182 , 186 , 254n70 195 , 207 Liber Illustrium Virorium , 254n70 Birthday Letters , 182 Ludo , 253n64 , 254n70 Crow , 65 , 66 – 67 Mercian Hymns , 70 , 84 – 87 , 88 , “ Th e Hawk in the Rain”, 66 200 , 204 Th e Hawk in the Rain , 25 , 65 “Metamorphoses”, 40 “ Th e Horses”, 66 Th e Mystery of the Charity of Charles “ Th e Jaguar”, 66 Péguy , 204 , 205 Lupercal , 65 Odi Barbare , 254n70 “Pike”, 67 , 86 Th e Orchards of Syon , 205 , 254n70 as Poet Laureate, 181 Oraclau/Oracles , 205 , 254n70 “ Th e Th ought-Fox”, 66 , 186 “Our Word Is Our Bond”, 205 , 206 “ Th istles”, 66 “A P a s t o r a l ”, 4 0 Wodwo , 65 Pindarics , 254n70 Huxley, Aldous, 152 Scenes from Comus , 205 , 254n70 Speech! Speech! , 205 , 254n70 I Roy, 160 “To the (Supposed) Patron”, 40 Imlah, Mick, 190 , 251n4 Tenebrae , 204 Immigration Act (1971), 44 , 159 A Treatise of Civil Power , 254n70 Indian Independence Act (1947), 6 , 42 Th e Triumph of Love , 205 , 207 , Indica (bookshop), 93 254n70 Informationists, 190 – 191 “Two Formal Elegies”, 39 International Poetry For the Unfallen , 37 – 41 , 204 Incarnation, 28 , 93 Without Title , 205 , 254n70 International Sound Poetry Festival, 93 Hilton, Roger, 34 Irigaray, Luce, 148 Hobsbaum, Philip, 26 , 129 Irish Civil War, 130 Hodgkiss, Peter, 92 Poetry Information , 92 Jackson, Kenneth, 158 H o ff man, Michael, 184 , 231n5 , 251n4 Jagan, Cheddi, 46

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James, C.L.R., 54 Joseph, Anthony, 217 James, John, 100 , 113 Th e African Origin of UFOs , 217 Narrative Graffi ti , 113 Joyce, James, 53 , 196 , 219 Striking the Pavilion of Zero , 113 Finnegans Wake , 219 “Talking in Bed”, 113 Ulysses , 53 Jamie, Kathleen, 185 , 190 , 192 – 194 , Jung, Carl, 66 212 , 251n4 “Arraheids”, 193 K a fk a, Franz, 10 “Bairns of Suzie – A Hex”, 193 Kavanagh, Patrick, 70 , 129 “Den of the Old Men”, 193 Th e Great Hunger , 70 “Hand Relief”, 193 Kay, Jackie, 166 – 169 , 176 , 190 , 192 , Jizzen , 194 210 , 211 , 249n35 “Mother-May-I”, 193 Th e Adoption Papers , 167 – 169 , “Mr. and Mrs. Scotland Are 249n35 Dead”, 185 Kay, Jackie, James Procter, and Gemma Th e Overhaul , 194 Robinson “ Th e Queen of Sheba”, 192 – 194 Out of Bounds: British Black and Th e Queen of Sheba , 192 , 194 Asian Poets , 211 “School Reunion”, 193 Keats, John, 21 , 23 , 64 , 115 “ Th e Shoe”, 193 “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, 23 Th e Tree House , 194 Keery, James, 232n15 “ Th e Whale-Watcher”, 194 Kendall, Tim, 248n50 “Wee Wifey”, 193 Kennedy, Christine, 201 , 250n50 , Jarvis, Simon, 222 , 224 , 243n43 253n50 Th e Unconditional: A Lyric , 222 Kennedy, David, 172 , 201 , 250n50 , Jenkins, Lee, 237n51 253n50 Jennings, Elizabeth, 15 , 16 , 29 , 173 Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, 248n50 “A ft ernoon in Florence”, 16 Kerridge, Richard, 107 , 243n43 jgjgjgjgj , 116 Kerrigan, John, 71 , 72 , 248n8 Johnson, Linton Kwesi, 119 , 159 – 163 , Keyes, Sidney, 10 176 , 198 , 210 , 249n14 , 249n16 King George VI, 85 Bass Culture , 160 King James I, 200 Dread Beat and Blood , 160 Demonology , 200 Forces of Victory , 160 King, Bruce, 48 , 236n16 “Five Nights of Bleeding”, 161 Kinnahan, Linda, 250n50 “If I Woz a Tap-Natch Poet”, 162 Kirkland, Richard, 247n45 Inglan Is a Bitch , 160 Th e Koncrete Kanticle , 116 “New Craas Massakah”, 161 – 162 Kristeva, Julia, 148 , 174 “Reggae Sounds”, 160 Kuppner, Frank, 190 Voices of the Living and the Kyk-Over-Al , 49 Dead , 160 Johnson, Robert, 114 La Rose, John, 54 Jonathan Cape, 94 , 209 Ladkin, Sam, 225 Jones, David, 13 , 69 , 70 , 75 , 83 , 217 Lamming, George, 48 , 50 , 53 Th e Anathemata , 13 , 69 , 70 , 75 , 217 Lanyon, Peter, 34

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Larisch, Countess Marie, 98 Liverpool poets, 27 My Past , 98 Th e Mersey Sound , 27 Larkin, Philip, 9 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 19 – 25 , 26 , Lloyd, David, 247n19 29 , 30 , 38 , 40 , 70 , 84 , 91 , 103 , 159 , Lochhead, Liz, 173 , 190 , 192 , 210 177 , 181 , 185 , 207 , 230 Th e Grimm Sisters , 173 “An Arundel Tomb”, 21 as Scots Makar, 210 “Born Yesterday”, 16 Logue, Christopher, 217 “Church Going”, 20 – 21 , 23 , 25 War Music , 217 Collected Poems , 20 London Magazine , 53 “ Th e Explosion”, 22 Longley, Edna, 19 , 129 , 131 , 245n1 , “Going, Going”, 19 , 70 247n19 “At Grass”, 19 Longley, Michael, 53 , 126 , 129 , “High Windows”, 22 130 , 131 – 133 , 141 , 143 , 155 , “Homage to a Government”, 19 183 , 194 “Home is So Sad”, 20 “Autumn Lady’s Tresses”, 131 “I Remember, I Remember”, 22 “ Th e Beech Tree”, 131 Th e Less Deceived , 14 , 25 “Carrigskeewaun”, 131 “MCMXIV”, 19 “ C e a s e fi re”, 131 “Next, Please”, 20 Collected Poems , 131 Th e Oxford Book of Twentieth “ Th e Comber”, 131 Century English Verse , 91 An Exploded View , 132 “Poetry of Departures”, 20 “ Th e Greengrocer”, 133 “Reasons for Attendance”, 20 “ Th e Group”, 131 “Show Saturday”, 19 , 70 “ Th e Ice-Cream Man”, 133 “Skin”, 20 “Letters”, 133 “Talking in Bed”, 21 “ Th e Linen Workers”, 133 “ Th e Whitsun Weddings”, No Continuing City , 129 , 131 22 – 24 , 40 “Remembering the Poets”, 131 “ Th is Be the Verse”, 19 “Wounds”, 132 “ To a d s ”, 2 0 “Wreaths”, 132 “Wants”, 19 , 22 Longville, Tim, 91 , 92 , 99 , 100 , “Wires”, 20 157 , 182 Larrissy, Edward, 100 Lopez, Tony, 234n53 Lawrence, D.H., 10 , 26 Low, Gail, 235n12 , 235n14 , 236n28 Lady Chatterley’s Lover , 26 Lowell, Robert, 26 , 62 Leavis, F.R., 208 Lucie-Smith, Edward, 26 Leonard, Tom, 91 , 118 , 119 , 190 , A Group Anthology , 26 212 , 214 Luna, Joe, 256n34 “Good Style”, 119 Six Glasgow Poems , 119 MacBeth, George, 9 , 14 Lewis, Alun, 10 MacCaig, Norman, 10 , 118 Lewis, Cecil Day, 9 MacDiarmid, Hugh, 34 , 68 , 69 , 83 , 91 , Lewis, Gwyneth, 194 118 , 123 , 177 , 190 , 192 , 212 Lindisfarne Gospels , 75 , 79 , 87 MacDonald, Helen, 195 Lister, David, 251n4 MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, 190

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MacLean, Sorley. See MacGill-Eain, McGonigal, James, 239n18 Somhairle McGough, Roger, 27 , 53 Macmillan, Harold, 42 McGuckian, Medbh, 126 , 131 , 143 , MacNeice, Louis, 9 , 129 147 – 149 , 150 , 153 , 155 , 248n45 MacSweeney, Barry, 91 , 92 , 100 , On Ballycastle Beach , 147 113 – 115 , 196 , 214 Th e Flower Master , 147 “Black Torch Sunrise”, 114 Marconi’s Cottage , 147 Th e Book of Demons , 114 Venus and the Rain , 147 Th e Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells M c G u ffi e, Jessie, 120 of His Mother , 113 McKendrick, Jamie, 251n4 Brother Wolf , 113 McKittrick, David, 246n3 “Colonel B”, 114 McVea, David, 246n3 Hellhound Memos , 114 Meehan, Paula, 147 “Hellhound Rapefi eld Memo”, 114 Meeropol, Abel (Lewis Allan), 140 “Jury Vet”, 114 Mellor, Oscar, 37 “Just 22 and I Don’t Mind Dying: Mellors, Anthony, 243n43 Offi cial Poetical Biography of Jim Mengham, Rod, 221 , 222 Morrison”, 114 Equipage , 221 “Liz Hard”, 114 Mengham, Rod and John Wilkinson Odes: 1971–1978 , 114 Equofi nality , 221 Maguire, Sarah, 251n4 Meredith, George, 250n39 Mahon, Derek, 126 , 129 , 130 , 133 , Modern Love , 250n39 140 – 143 , 144 , 155 , 178 , 231n5 Middleton, Christopher, 231n5 “A ft erlives”, 141 , 144 , 178 Middleton, Peter, 195 , 198 , 199 , “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”, 243n43 130 , 141 – 143 M i g h t y S p a r r o w , 5 6 “ Th e Last of the Fire Kings”, 141 Migrant Press, 72 Th e Night Crossing , 129 Miller, David, 241n4 “ Th e Snow Party”, 141 Miller, Kei, 211 Th e Snow Party , 140 Milne, Drew, 100 , 220 , 221 – 222 , 223 , Makin, Peter, 239n18 228 , 242n19 , 243n43 Manson, Peter, 224 “Agoraphobia, and the Markham, E.A., 210 Embarrassment of Manifestos”, Marriott, David, 220 , 243n43 221 – 222 Marsh, Nicky, 198 Parataxis , 221 Marshall Plan, 6 Minhinnick, Robert, 194 – 195 Marson, Una, 49 “La Otra Orilla”, 195 Martian poets, 155 , 157 , 158 , 179 , 185 “ Th e Porthcawl Preludes”, 195 Marvell, Andrew, 18 “Twenty-Five Laments for Iraq”, 194 “To His Coy Mistress”, 18 Monk, Geraldine, 173 , 189 , 198 , Matthias, John, 94 199 – 203 , 214 Maxwell, Glyn, 184 , 251n4 “ Th e Eternal Bewilderment of Mbari Artists’ and Writers’ Club, 62 Jennet Device”, 203 McClure, Michael, 115 “Flyer”, 201 McDonald, Peter, 245n1 “Fox Hunt”, 201

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Monk, Geraldine (cont.) Muckle, John, 157 , 182 “Fox Trot”, 201 Th e New British Poetry , 157 , 182 “Hallowe’en Bikers”, 200 Muir, Edwin, 68 “Hill Outriders”, 201 Muldoon, Paul, 126 , 129 , 131 , 143 , Interregnum , 199 – 203 149 – 154 , 155 , 158 , 179 , 185 , 191 , “Jesuit Boy Blues”, 201 195 , 214 , 217 , 248n50 “Nerve Center”, 200 Th e Annals of Chile , 149 “Pagans”, 202 “ Th e Bangle (Slight Return)”, 151 , 154 “Palimpsestus”, 201 “Incantata”, 154 Selected Poems , 201 “Madoc: A Mystery”, 151 , 217 “Shift Workers”, 201 Madoc: A Mystery , 149 Montague, John, 71 , 126 , 127 , 130 , “Meeting the British”, 149 – 150 152 , 218 Meeting the British , 149 Th e Rough Field , 71 , 130 , 152 “ Th e More a Man Has the More a Montgomery, Stuart, 92 Man Wants”, 151 – 153 Moore, Nicholas, 10 Quoof , 151 , 152 Morden Tower, 75 , 93 “ Th ird Epistle to Timothy”, 154 Morgan, Edwin, 34 , 53 , 91 , 118 – 119 , “Why Brownlee Left ”, 149 120 , 177 – 178 , 190 “Yarrow”, 154 “Canedolia: An Off -Concrete Scotch Mulford, Wendy, 91 , 100 , 173 , 174 Fantasia”, 119 “Valentine”, 174 From Glasgow to Saturn , 118 Murdoch, Iris, 14 Glasgow Sonnets , 177 Murdoch, Rupert, 182 , 184 “ Th e Loch Ness Monster’s Murray, Les, 53 Song”, 118 as Scots Makar, 190 Nagra, Daljit, 208 , 211 – 212 , 214 , 216 Th e Second Life , 118 “A Black History of the Selected Poems , 190 English-Speaking Peoples”, Sonnets from Scotland , 177 211 , 212 Morris, Adalaide, 255n15 “ Th e Furtherance of Mr. Bulram’s Morris, Tina, 92 Education”, 211 Morrison, Blake, 25 , 155 – 157 , 158 , Look We Have Coming to 181 , 190 Dover! , 211 Morrison, Blake and Andrew “ Th is Man Who Would Be Motion English!”, 211 Th e Penguin Book of Contemporary “Our Town with the Whole of British Poetry , 155 – 156 , 181 India!”, 211 Morrissey, Sinéad, 210 Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible Morsman, Jeff rey, 101 White-Man-Eating Tiger Motion, Andrew, 19 , 24 , 155 – 157 , 158 , Toy-Machine!!! , 211 181 , 190 Naipaul, V.S., 48 Mottram, Eric, 76 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 121 , 123 , Nairn, Tom, 158 241n1 National Health Service, 5 Th e Movement, 13 , 14 – 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , National Insurance Act, 5 25 , 26 , 28 , 33 , 40 , 70 , 91 , 94 , 230 National Poetry Competition, 164 , 183

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National Poetry Day, 181 , 183 In the House of the Shaman , 195 , 196 National Union of Mineworkers, “narcotic properties”, 198 87 , 158 Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Nationality Act (1948), 43 , 44 Innovative Poetry By Women in Nealon, Christopher, 243n43 North American and the U.K. , 157 Neo-Romantic poetry, 10 , 11 , 12 , 25 Palace of Reptiles , 195 New Generation Poets (New Gen), “riverrunning(realizations”, 196 183 – 185 , 190 , 209 “theoretical economies”, 198 Poetry Review , 183 , 184 Oakes, Philip, 14 Th e South Bank Show , 183 Okigbo, Christopher, 60 , 62 – 65 , New York School poets, 91 , 93 , 237n53 113 , 190 Distances , 62 , 63 , 65 Next Generation Poets (2004), 184 , 209 Heavensgate , 62 , 63 , 64 Next Generation Poets (2014), 184 , Labyrinths , 62 , 63 , 65 209 , 211 “Lament of the Silent Sisters”, 65 Ngũgĩ wa Th iong’o, 61 Limits , 62 , 63 , 65 Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan, 147 Silences , 62 , 63 , 65 Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala, 147 “Watermaid”, 63 Nichols, Grace, 164 – 165 , 166 , 176 , Oliver, Douglas, 242n21 178 , 210 Olivier, Laurence, 24 Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 164 Olson, Charles, 75 , 91 , 93 , 94 , 98 , 100 , “Epilogue”, 164 105 , 121 , 122 , 123 , 124 , 197 , 217 I Is a Long Memoried Woman , 164 “Human Universe”, 105 Niedecker, Lorine, 118 Th e Maximus Poems , 75 , 124 , 217 Nolan, Kevin, 243n43 “Projective Verse”, 93 , 98 Northern Irish Civil Rights Oswald, Alice, 208 , 218 – 220 Association, 127 , 128 Dart , 218 – 220 Notting Hill Carnival (1976), 161 Ovid, 131 , 152 Notting Hill Riots, 44 Oxford University Press, 55 , 182 Nuttall, Jeff , 116 Oxford Poets series, 182 Nwakanma, Obi, 237n53 Nwoga, Donatus I., 237n53 p’Bitek, Okot, 60 , 61 Song of Lawino , 61 O’Brien, Sean, 177 , 209 , 221 Th e Song of Ocol , 61 Th e Drowned Book , 209 Padel, Ruth, 217 O’Donoghue, Bernard, 246n17 Darwin: A Life in Poems , 217 O’Hara, Frank, 113 Paisley, Ian, 144 O’Rourke, Donny, 190 Paladin Poetry, 182 Dream State: Th e New Scottish Th e Paperback Book Shop, 93 Poets , 190 Parker, Stewart, 129 O’Sullivan, Maggie, 115 , 116 , 157 , 173 , Pater, Walter, 98 189 , 195 – 198 , 204 , 213 , 214 Paterson, Don, 2 , 184 , 190 , 191 , 209 , “Another Weather System”, 196 – 197 221 , 251n4 “Birth Palette”, 195 “ Th e Alexandrian Library”, 191 “Hill Figures”, 195 New British Poetry , 2 , 209

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Patke, Rajeev S., 231n6 and nationality, 52 – 53 , 68 , 190 – 192 Patten, Brian, 27 and performance, 27 – 28 , 33 , 116 , Patterson, Orlando, 54 162 – 163 , 198 – 199 , 215 – 217 Paulin, Tom, 22 , 23 , 24 , 126 , 143 , and place, 68 – 71 , 86 – 87 , 121 – 124 , 144 – 145 , 155 , 177 130 – 131 , 176 – 180 , 218 – 220 “Desertmartin”, 144 and politics, 46 – 48 , 160 – 162 , 205 , “A Just State”, 145 222 – 224 Th e Liberty Tree , 144 and publishing, 8 – 9 , 27 , 28 , 48 – 49 , “ O ff the Back of a Lorry”, 144 61 , 92 – 93 , 94 , 182 , 209 – 210 A State of Justice , 144 and race, 44 , 159 – 169 , 210 – 212 Paz, Octavio, 182 and subjectivity, 45 – 46 , 101 – 102 , Pendle witch trials, 199 – 203 , See 174 – 176 , 220 – 221 Monk, Geraldine, Interregnum Poetry (Chicago), 75 Penguin Modern Poets, 27 , 94 Poetry on the Buses, 181 Penguin Modern Poets 19 , 94 Poetry on the Underground, 181 People’s Democracy, 128 Poetry Review , 93 , 183 , 184 , 251n1 Picador, 209 , 214 Poetry Society, 93 , 116 , 183 , 184 , 209 , Pickard, Connie, 75 , 93 241n7 Pickard, Tom, 75 , 91 , 93 , 113 , 239n17 Pollard, Charles W., 237n51 Plath, Sylvia, 29 , 173 , 182 Potter, Simon, 235n14 pocket epic, 70 , 71 , 217 , See Blanton, Potts, Th omas, 200 C.D. and Nigel Alderman Th e Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches Poetmeat , 92 in the Countie of Lancaster, 200 poetry Pound, Ezra, 36 , 38 , 57 , 70 , 74 , 75 , 76 , and animals, 65 – 67 , 77 , 118 , 188 , 91 , 93 , 100 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 123 , 195 – 197 124 , 217 anthologies, 14 – 15 , 26 , 155 – 157 , Cantos , 70 , 75 , 105 , 124 , 217 181 – 182 , 210 Imagism, 76 and class, 155 – 156 , 169 – 172 Powell, Enoch, 44 , 85 and diaspora, 56 – 61 , 163 – 166 Price, Jonathan, 14 and dub, 159 – 162 Price, Richard, 92 , 190 , 239n18 , 241n4 and ecology, 195 Procter, James, 211 and economics, 105 – 106 , 182 – 183 , Prynne, J.H., 91 , 93 , 94 , 99 , 100 , 104 , 185 – 186 105 – 113 , 204 , 220 , 221 , 222 , and form, 2 – 3 , 33 , 71 , 129 – 130 , 143 , 223 , 226 , 227 , 228 , 229 , 242n25 , 204 , 217 – 218 , 229 – 230 , 254n70 243n43 , 243n56 , 256n34 and gender, 29 , 135 , 136 , 137 – 138 , “Aristeas, in Seven Years”, 106 147 – 148 , 167 – 169 , 172 – 176 , Brass , 106 187 – 190 , 194 , 210 “Chemins de Fer”, 106 and history, 37 – 41 , 50 – 52 , 84 – 86 , “Chromatin”, 108 – 112 , 227 199 – 203 “Die a Millionaire”, 105 and institutions, 9 , 181 “Foot and Mouth”, 106 and myth, 62 – 65 , 66 – 67 Force of Circumstance , 105 and narrative, 146 – 147 , “ Th e Glacial Question, 157 – 158 , 180 Unsolved”, 107

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Her Weasels Wild Returning , “Stag Skull Mounted”, 95 112 , 221 “West Wind”, 96 Kitchen Poems , 105 Writing , 95 , 96 “Living in History”, 106 Read, Herbert, 10 “Mental Ears and Poetic Reading, Peter, 177 , 191 Work”, 108 Stet , 177 “ Th e Moon Poem”, 106 Ukulele Music , 177 “A New Tax on the Redferne, Anne, 200 Counter-Earth”, 108 Reed, Brian, 95 “A Note on Metal”, 105 , 242n25 Reeve, N.H., 107 , 243n43 “One Way At Any Time”, 106 Reid, Christopher, 155 Th e Oval Window , 112 Reiss, Timothy, 236n38 Poems , 105 Rexroth, Kenneth, 11 , 12 Poems (2005), 94 Th e New British Poets: An “ Th e Stranger, Instantly”, 106 Anthology , 11 “ Th oughts on the Esterházy Court Rhys, Jean, 48 Uniform”, 106 Rich, Adrienne, 37 , 173 “ Th e Western Gate”, 106 Ricks, Christopher, 30 , 134 , 246n9 Th e White Stones , 105 , 112 Ridler, Anne, 29 Wound Response , 108 Riley, Denise, 91 , 99 , 173 , Pumphrey, Martin, 29 174 – 176 , 189 “A ff ections Must Not”, 175 , 176 Quartermain, Peter, 157 , 245n86 ‘Am I Th at Name?’: Feminism Queen Elizabeth II, 7 , 43 and the Category of ‘Women’ in coronation, 43 History , 174 , 175 Dry Air , 174 , 175 Race Today , 160 “Lure, 1963”, 176 Radin, Paul, 151 Marxism for Infants , 174 Raine, Craig, 155 , 157 , 179 Mop Mop Georgette , 174 “A Martian Sends a Postcard “A Note on Sex and ‘Th e Reclaiming Home”, 157 of Language’” 174 – 175 Raine, Kathleen, 29 “Pastoral”, 176 Rakosi, Carl, 100 War in the Nursery: Th eories of the Ramanujan, A.K., 60 Child and Mother , 174 Ramazani, Jahan, 60 , 231n6 , “Well All Right”, 176 249n27 “When It’s Time To Go”, 176 Rankin Russell, Richard, 246n17 Riley, John, 242n21 Raworth, Tom, 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 – 99 , 182 , Riley, Peter, 87 – 90 , 92 , 99 , 100 , 217 , 241n10 222 – 224 , 228 , 242n25 Ace , 95 , 97 – 99 “King’s Mine”, 88 “Bolivia: Another End of Ace”, 97 Lines on the Liver , 87 , 88 Catacoustics , 95 “Material Soul”, 89 – 90 Eternal Sections , 217 “A Note on Vein Forms”, 88 Moving , 95 Tracks and Mineshaft s , 87 , 88 Th e Relation Ship , 94 Rimbaud, Arthur, 113

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Robbins Report, 9 Scottish Devolution Referendum Roberts, Lynette, 13 , 217 (1997), 177 , 191 Gods with Stainless Ears: A Heroic Scottish Independence Referendum Poem , 13 , 217 (2014), 191 Roberts, Michael Symmons, 209 Scovell, E.J., 29 Drysalter , 209 Seed, John, 239n20 Roberts, Michèle, 173 Selvon, Samuel, 48 Robertson, Robin, 190 Sexual Off enses Act (1967), 26 Robinson, Gemma, 211 Shakespeare, William, 53 , 146 , 152 Rodker, John, 100 Henry V , 53 Rohlehr, Gordon, 236n38 Shapcott, Jo, 179 – 180 Rothenberg, Jerome, 212 “Phrase Book”, 179 – 180 Routledge and Kegan Paul, 105 Phrase Book , 179 Ruddick, Yvonne, 161 Shayer, Michael, 72 Rumens, Carol, 157 , 173 , 177 , Shearsman Books, 94 178 , 179 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 113 , 250n35 “Coming Home”, 178 Sheppard, Robert, 92 , 116 , 217 , 241n7 , Making for the Open: Th e Chatto 242n14 , 244n74 Book of Post-Feminist Poetry, Twentieth Century Blues , 217 1964–1984 , 157 Sheppard, Victoria, 198 New Women Poets , 157 Sherry, Vincent, 38 Rush, Anne Spry, 42 , 44 , 235n14 Shuttle, Penelope, 173 Rushdie, Salman, 163 , 211 Sidney, Sir Philip, 254n70 Midnight’s Children , 163 , 211 Old Arcadia , 254n70 Th e Satanic Verses , 163 Silkin, Jon, 37 Ruskin, John, 165 Poetry of the Committed Individual , 37 Said, Edward, 163 Stand , 37 Salkey, Andrew, 48 , 54 , 159 Simic, Charles, 209 Salmon, Arthur Edward, 232n15 Simmons, James, 129 , 133 Salt Publishing, 94 Simms, Colin, 195 Sampson, Anthony, 6 Sinclair, Iain, 100 , 121 , 123 , 157 , 182 , 184 Sampson, Fiona, 218 , 221 Conductors of Chaos , 100 , 157 , San Francisco poets, 94 182 , 184 Sands, Bobby, 144 Lud Heat , 121 Savacou: A Journal of the Caribbean Sinfi eld, Alan, 5 , 6 Artists Movement , 54 Sissay, Lemn, 198 Scargill, Arthur, 87 , 158 Smith, G. Gregory, 192 Scarlatti, Giuseppi Domenico, 75 , 81 Smith, Mikey, 160 Schmidt, Michael, 209 Smith, Stan, 185 , 252n15 Schwitters, Kurt, 196 Smith, Stevie, 4 , 29 – 33 , 173 , 195 Scobie, Stephen, 245n83 “To an American Publisher”, 30 Scott, J.D., 14 “ Th e Bishops of the Church of Scottish Devolution Referendum England”, 30 (1979), 176 , 191 “ Th e Choosers”, 30

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“Come Death. Do not be slow”, 30 Th e Odes to TL61P , 227 “ Th is Englishwoman”, 30 Swainson, Bill, 183 “ Th e Frog Prince”, 30 Swallow Press, 94 “A House of Mercy”, 30 Twenty-three Modern British “In the Night”, 30 Poets, 94 “Not Waving but Drowning”, 31 – 32 S w a n z y , H e n r y , 4 9 Not Waving but Drowning , 29 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 76 “Our Bog is dood, our Bog is Swiss, Th omas, 255n15 dood”, 30 “ Th e River Humber”, 31 T.S. Eliot Prize, 181 , 214 “To School!”, 30 Tarlo, Harriet, 195 “Souvenir de Monsieur Poop”, 30 Tate, Allen, 40 , 62 Snow, Margaret, 234n53 Teddy boys, 27 Snow, Michael, 234n53 Tempest, Kate, 198 Soyinka, Wole, 44 , 61 – 62 Tennyson, Alfred, 33 “Around Us, Dawning”, 61 Terada, Rei, 236n16 “Death in the Dawn”, 61 Terrell, Carroll R., 239n18 “Idanre”, 61 , 62 Th atcher, Margaret, 7 , 87 , 97 , 116 , 144 , Idanre and Other Poems , 62 158 – 159 , 161 , 163 , 176 , 177 , 180 , “Massacre, October ‘66”, 62 185 , 191 A Shuttle in the Crypt , 62 Th e Beatles, 27 “Telephone Conversation”, 44 Th omas, Dylan, 10 – 13 , 15 , 18 , 25 , 33 , Spare Rib , 173 49 , 83 , 113 , 218 Special Powers Act, Northern Ireland “Ballad of the Long-Legged (1922), 127 B a i t ”, 1 2 Th e Spectator , 14 Collected Poems , 12 Spender, Stephen, 8 , 9 , 11 Deaths and Entrances , 12 Poetry Since 1939 , 8 , 9 18 Poems , 12 Spenser, Edmund, 76 “Fern Hill”, 12 Sperling, Matthew, 241n5 Th e Map of Love , 12 Spicer, Jack, 123 “Over Sir John’s Hill”, 12 Spivak, Gayatri, 163 “Poem in October”, 12 SS Empire Windrush , 44 “Poem on His Birthday”, 12 St. Ives school, 34 25 Poems , 12 Stainer, Pauline, 251n4 Under Milk Wood , 12 , 218 Stein, Gertrude, 152 , 196 “In the White Giant’s Th igh”, 12 Stevenson, Anne, 173 , 179 “A Winter’s Tale”, 12 Stevenson, Randall, 27 , 221 Th omas, Edward, 84 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 152 , 153 Th omas, R.S., 13 , 68 , 83 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 58 Th oreau, Henry David, 152 Uncle Tom’s Cabin , 58 Tomlinson, Charles, 70 Suez Canal Crisis, 32 , 42 American Scenes and Other Sutherland, Keston, 208 , 220 , 223 , Poems , 70 224 – 228 , 243n43 A Peopled Landscape , 70 Hot White Andy , 224 – 228 Th e Way of a World , 70

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Tonge, Jonathan, 246n3 “Crusoe’s Journal”, 50 Torrance, Chris, 123 “A Far Cry From Africa”, 45 – 46 , 49 , Torres-Saillant, Silvio, 237n51 212 Treece, Henry, 10 – 11 In a Green Night , 48 Collected Poems , 11 “Lavantille”, 50 , 51 “How I See Apocalypse”, 11 “ Th e Muse of History”, 50 Trent Book Shop, 93 Nobel Prize, 181 Trigram Press, 92 Omeros , 50 , 52 , 217 Th e Troubles (Northern Ireland), “Parang”, 50 126 – 129 , 131 , 134 , 135 , 138 , 143 , “Prelude”, 50 144 , 158 , 176 “Ruins of a Great House”, 50 Tuma, Keith, 2 , 94 , 182 , “ Th e Schooner Flight ”, 50 , 52 , 71 239n20 , 241n9 “A Sea-Chantey”, 50 Anthology of Twentieth-Century “Sea Grapes”, 50 British & Irish Poetry , 182 “ Th e Sea Is History”, 51 – 52 Turnbull, Gael, 94 , 99 “Tales of the Islands”, 50 Twenty Words, Twenty Days , 99 25 Poems , 52 Turner, J.M.W., 165 “Two Poems on the Passing of an Slavers Th rowing Overboard the Empire”, 50 Dead and the Dying , 165 “Verandah”, 50 Turret (bookshop), 93 Walmsley, Anne, 55 , 236n29 Tutuola, Amos, 61 Walton, Jow Lindsay, 256n34 Th e Palm-Wine Drunkard , 61 Watkins, Vernon, 10 Tyler, Meg, 246n17 Webster, Wendy, 6 , 235n2 Tzara, Tristan, 117 Welsh Devolution Referendum (1979), 176 U Roy, 160 Welsh Devolution Referendum (1997), U l t i m a Th ule (bookshop), 93 177 , 194 Unicorn (bookshop), 93 West Indies Federation, 54 Upton, Lawrence, 116 Whitehead, Peter, 28 Wholly Communion , 28 Vendler, Helen, 246n17 Whitman, Walt, 217 Virago Press, 173 Leaves of Grass , 217 Virgil, 79 Whittle, Anne (Chattox), 200 Whyte, Christopher, 191 Wain, John, 14 , 91 Wichert, Sabine, 246n3 First Reading (BBC), 14 Wicks, Susan, 251n4 as Oxford Professor of Wild Hawthorn Press, 120 Poetry, 91 Wilkinson, John, 99 , 100 , 106 , 125 , Walcott, Derek, 45 – 46 , 48 , 49 – 53 , 59 , 220 – 221 , 222 – 224 , 225 , 226 , 228 , 60 , 71 , 127 , 159 , 160 , 164 , 181 , 229 , 243n43 210 , 212 , 217 William Heineman, 61 , See A f r i c a n Another Life , 50 Writers Series Th e Castaway , 49 Williams, Daniel G., 252n29 “Crusoe’s Island”, 50 Williams, Raymond, 69

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Williams, William Carlos, 71 , 73 , 91 , Yeats, W.B., 10 , 21 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 49 , 93 , 100 , 113 , 115 , 124 57 , 76 , 129 , 132 , 135 , 152 , 171 , Paterson , 73 , 124 176 , 206 Williamson, Moncrieff , 33 “Leda and the Swan”, 176 Wills, Clair, 151 , 245n1 , 248n49 , 248n50 “Under Ben Bulben”, 171 Wilson, Harold, 26 , 184 Yeh, Jane, 211 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 102 Young Commonwealth Poets ‘65 , Th e Wivenhoe Park Review , 100 53 , 54 Wood, James, 183 Wootten, William, 240n57 Zaum poetry, 117 Wordsworth, William, 33 , 76 , 83 Zephaniah, Benjamin, 163 , 210 Lyrical Ballads , 33 Zukofsky, Louis, 75 , 123 Wyatt, Th omas, 76 A , 75 Wynter, Bryan, 34 Zurbrugg, Nicholas, 245n83