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Aark Arts, 188 Alvi, Moniza, 192 , 205 Abandonedbuildings , 91 The Country at my Shoulder , 188 Abse, Dannie, 244 – 5 Amis, Kingsley, 3 , 4 , 28 , 32 , 57 Poetry and Poverty , 244 Bright November , 28 See also Mavericks ‘Mightier than the Pen’, 35 Ackroyd, Peter, 238 Amis, Martin, 254 Adams, Anna, 205 Ampurias, 64 Adcock, Fleur, 201 , 203 , 205 Anglo-Irish Treaty, 131 The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480–1990 , 163 Women Poets , 197 , 202 See also Garlick, Raymond , and ‘Instructions to a Vampire’, 203 Mathias, Roland Agard, John, 6 , 188 , 192 Angry Young Men, 118 Agbabi, Patience, 205 , 234 Angus, Marion, 149 Bloodshot Monochrome , 232 Anvil Press, 118 ‘The London Eye’, 232 – 3 ap Gwilym, Dafydd, 164 , 170 Telling Tales , 190 ‘Y Gwynt’, 164 Albion Village Press, 4 Apocalyptic poets, 54 Aldermaston marches, 69 Apples and Snakes, 77 Ali, Monica, 181 Armitage, Simon, 110 , 242 , 254 Allen, Michael, 137 ‘The Stuff’, 112 – 13 Allingham, William, 134 Zoom! , 112 Allen, Donald Arnold, Matthew, 189 The New American Poetry , 65 ‘Dover Beach’, 189 Allen Lane publishers, 55 Arts Council, 87 , 241 , 248 , 249 Allen, Woody Arvon, 240 – 41 The Purple Rose of Cairo , 233 Ashbery, John, 44 Allison, Jonathan, 139 Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 151 Allnut, Gillian. 205 Astley, Neil, 248 , 249 ‘Convent’, 207 Atta, Dean ‘The Talking Princess’, 200 I Am Nobody’s Nigger , 190 See also The New British Poetry, Auden, W.H., 2 , 10 , 12 , 27 , 33 , 39 – 43 , 44 , 1968–1988 45 , 47 , 48 – 9 , 50 , 54 , 165 Alvarez, A., 65 , 66 The Age of Anxiety , 44 , 45 , 48 – 9 ‘Beyond All this Fiddle’, 55 Another Time , 40 The New Poetry , 4 , 6 , 28 , 30 – 31 , 48 , ‘A Summer Night’, 40 54 – 7 , 60 , 108 , 132 ‘August for the people’, 40 ‘The New Poetry, or Beyond the Gentility ‘Caliban to the Audience’, 42 , 48 Principle’, 30 – 31 , 54 Collected Longer Poems , 41

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Auden, W.H. (cont.) Beatles, 28 , 230 Collected Poetry (1945), 39 – 43 Beautiful Barbarians , 199 Collected Shorter Poems , 41 , 42 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 15 ‘Depravity: A Sermon’, 42 Belfast, 7 , 250 The Dog Beneath the Skin , 42 See also Queen’s University Double Man , 41 Belli, Giuseppe, 154 The Dyer’s Hand , 49 Benjamin, Walter, 94 For the Time Being , 39 , 42 Bergonzi, Bernard, 246 ‘Here on the cropped grass’, 40 Bergvall, Caroline, 78 ‘Horae Canonicae’, 48 Bernikow, Louise Italian Journey (Goethe) translation, 49 The World Split Open , 198 ‘Letter to a Wound’, 42 Bernstein, Charles, 91 Letters from Iceland , 47 Berry, James, 183 , 191 Look, Stranger! , 40 , 41 Bluefoot Traveller , 185 , 186 ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’, 41 News for Babylon , 187 New Year Letter , 39 , 41 , 49 ‘On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Nones , 2 Victoria, 1955’, 183 The Orators , 42 Berry, Liz, 242 Paid on Both Sides , 40 Berryman, John, 31 , 56 Paul Bunyan , 43 Bertram, Vicki, 206 , 209 Poems , 40 Gendering Poetry , 197 The Sea and the Mirror , 39 , 42 Betjeman, John, 2 , 166 Selected Poems , 42 – 3 Collected Poems , 2 ‘September 1, 1939’, 40 , 42 Better Books, 74 , 77 The Shield of Achilles , 2 Bhatt, Sujata, 205 ‘Sir, No Man’s Enemy’, 42 Bible, 243 , 244 ‘Spain’, 42 , 44 Bidgood, Ruth, 170 , 173 Bielski, Alison, 170 Bad Press, 91 Across the Burning Sand , 170 Bailey, Harry, 190 ‘hunting the wren’, 170 Bangor University, 251 ‘sacramental sonnets’, 170 Baraka, Amiri, 186 Twentieth-Century Flood , 170 Barker, George, 2 , 22 ‘wild leek, Flatholm Island’, 170 Calamiterror , 21 Binta Breeze, Jean, 205 Lament in Triumph , 21 Riddym Ravings and Other The True Confession of George Poems , 184 Barker , 21 Birkbeck, 247 Barnie, John, 173 Birmingham, 62 ‘About the Usk’, 173 Black British Poetry, 6 ‘Barque’, 91 Blackburn, Thomas, 248 Barrell, John, 251 Blackman, Malorie, 192 Barry, Peter, 62 , 89 , 109 – 10 Black Mountain, 3 , 89 , 156 , 160 Poetry Wars , 87 Black Panther movement, 184 Bassnett, Susan, 251 Blair, Tony, 94 Bateman, Meg, 158 Blake, William, 1 , 19 , 22 , 82 , 242 Aotromachd agus dàin eile / Lightness Bletchley Park, 11 and other poems , 158 Bloodaxe Press, 188 , 192 , 197 , 248 Soirbheas / Fair Wind , 158 Ten North-East Poets , 249 Transparencies , 158 Bloom, Valerie, 185 Baudelaire, Charles, 14 , 94 Bluecoat Arts Centre, 78 Bayley, John, 104 Blunt, Anthony, 139 BBC, 75 , 188 , 244, 254 Boccaccio, Giovanni Beat poets, 156 Decameron , 234 274

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Boland, Eavan, 130 Butlin, Ron, 159 A Poet’s Dublin , 231 Byrne, Michel ‘City of Shadows’, 231 Modern Scottish Women Poets , 150 ‘The Harbour’, 232 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 1 Bolton University, 247 Bonney, Sean, 82 , 92 , 94 – 5 Caesar, Adrian, 107 Abandonedbuildings , 91 Cambridge, 128 , 249 , 251 Document , 94 – 5 Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Happiness , 94 Poetry, 85 Poisons, their antidotes , 94 Cambridge ‘Group’, 240 , 245 , 251 Bowles, Jane, 43 See also ‘The Group’ Bowles, Paul, 43 Cambridge University, 244 , 245 , 251 Brackenbury, Alison, 205 Campbell, Angus Peter, 160 Bradbury, Malcolm, 247 Campbell, Roy, 150 Brady, Andrea, 92 – 3 Carcanet, 118 , 253 Cold Calling , 92 Carey, Peter Brathwaite, Kamau, 184 Oscar and Lucinda , 235 Bread and Roses Caribbean Artists’ Movement, 184 See Scott, Diana Caribbean Voices , 178 , 184 Breton, André, 19 Carpenter, Humphrey, 41 Brett, Michael, 45 Carruth, Jim, 160 British Nationality Act, 178 Carruthers, Gerard, 5 British Poetry Revival, 8 , 20 , 65 , 83 , 90 Carson, Ciaran, 135 , 142 , 230 – 31 , Brittany, 64 236 , 251 Britten, Benjamin, 39 , 43 , 49 ‘Ambition’, 230 Paul Bunyan , 43 ‘Barfl y’, 230 Broom, Sarah, 179 ‘Bedtime Story’, 230 Brown, Merle E., 218 Belfast Confetti , 230 Brown, Pete, 75 , 78 ‘Belfast Confetti’, 230 Brown, Terence, 130 ‘Gate’, 230 Northern Voices , 134 ‘Jawbox’, 230 Browning, Robert, 113 ‘Last Orders’, 230 Bruce, George, 149 ‘Loaf’, 230 Bryce, Colette, 206 ‘Night Out’, 230 Buchan, Tom, 159 ‘Schoolboys and Idlers of Pompeii’, 230 Dolphins at Cochin , 159 Shamrock Tea , 234 Buck, Claire, 78 , 199 , 201 – 02 CAST , 242 Bunting, Basil, 50 – 51 , 122 , 248 , 249 Cézanne, Paul, 16 Briggfl atts , 3 , 4 , 39 , 46 , 49 , 50 – 51 , 64 , Chamberlain, Brenda, 170 83 , 248 The Green Heart , 170 ‘The Spoils’, 49 Charles University, Prague, 248 Burns, Elizabeth, 159 Chartists, 113 Held , 159 Chatterton, Thomas, 82 Ophelia , 159 Chatto and Windus, 244 Burnside, John, 160 , 215 Chaucer, Geoffrey Black Cat , 160 Canterbury Tales , 190 Common Knowledge , 160 Chicago Review , 92 The Hoop , 160 Childs, Peter, 109 ‘Koi’, 224 Claire, Paula, 78 Burroughs, William, 75 Clanchy, Kate, 205 , 206 Burton, Richard, 47 Clare, John, 15 , 82 Burton, Thomas, 47 Clarke, Adrian Butler Education Act, 29 , 116 , 118 Floating Capital , 84 275

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Clarke, Gillian, 170 – 71 , 173 , 205 Crichton Smith, Iain, 150 , 153 – 54 ‘Cofi ant’, 171 A Life , 153 ‘The King of Britain’s Daughter’, 171 Deer on the High Hills , 153 ‘Letter from a Far Country’, 171 The Law and the Grace , 153 Snow on the Mountain , 170 The Long River , 153 The Sundial , 170 ‘Old Woman’, 153 Cleverdon, Douglas, 47 ‘Poem of Lewis’, 153 CND, 69 Thistles and Roses , 153 Cobbing, Bob, 77 ‘Two Girls Singing’, 153 Cockney School, 113 Crozier, Andrew, 86 Coffey, Brian, 5 The English Intelligencer , 86 Cold War, 149 , 150 , 215 Cruickshank, Helen B., 149 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 14 , 15 , 22 Culler, Jonathan, 76 Collins, Merle, 185 , 205 Cutlasses and Earrings , 199 ‘Common Cultureword’, 191 Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, 169 ‘Complete Works’ project, 191 Complicities , 91 – 2 D’Aguiar, Fred, 186 , 192 Conn, Stewart, 159 See also The New British Poetry, Stolen Light , 159 1968–1988 Connolly, Cyril, 44 Dali, Salvador, 43 Horizon , 44 The Dark Horse , 246 Conquest, Robert, 31 , 32 , 66 Darley, George, 15 New Lines , 2 , 20 , 25 , 26 – 8 , 32 , 34 , Davie, Donald, 2 , 4 , 32 , 34 – 6 , 61 , 118 – 19 , 120 35 , 54 , 56 Articulate Energy , 60 New Lines II , 56 Brides of Reason , 28 Conran, Tony, 169 , 171 ‘Homage to William Cowper’, 34 Contact Theatre, 78 Thomas Hardy and British Poetry , 34 Contrafl ow on the Superhighway ‘Poem as Abstract’, 34 See Price, Richard , and Herbert, W.N. Six Epistles to Eva Hesse , 35 Cope, Wendy, 205 Davies, Grahame ‘Daily Help’, 207 ‘Pontcanna Blues’, 172 ‘You’re Not Allowed’, 207 Davies, Hugh Sykes, 19 Coppe, Abiezer, 82 Davies, Idris, 167 Corbett, Sarah The Angry Summer , 167 And She Was , 236 Gwalia Deserta , 167 Corbluth, Elsa, 205 ‘Mineowner’, 167 Corcoran, Neil, 26 , 117 Tonypandy and Other Poems , 167 Corso, Gregory, 69 , 71 , 74 , 75 Davies, Rhys, 163 , 164 ‘Mutations of the Spirit’, 75 – 6 Dawes, Kwame, 181 , 192 Council for College and University English, 240 Afro-Poets school, 191 Couzyn, Jeni, 205 Red , 191 Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Day Lewis, Cecil, 244 Women Poets , 197 , 203 Deane, Seamus, 133 Cowper Powys, John, 64 De Man, Paul, 14 Craig, Maurice James, 136 Devlin, Denis, 5 Craig, Richard, 71 – 2 Dharker, Imtiaz, 192 Crater Press, 91 Distaff , 199 Crawford, Robert, 161 Dobrée, Bonamy, 246 – 7 , 254 The New Penguin Book of Scottish Documentary Film Movement, 23 Verse, 150 Dollfuss, Engelbert, 46 Creative Writing: University MA Donne, John, 1 , 2 , 99 , 207 , 209 programmes, 247 Dooley, Maura, 205 Creeley, Robert, 71 Making for Planet Alice , 205 276

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Doolittle, Hilda ‘Guerillas’, 125 See H.D. The Happier Life , 125 Dorcey, Mary, 205 ‘Late Night Walk Down Terry Street’, 229 Douglas, Keith, 2 , 13 ‘Men of Terry Street’, 229 ‘Desert Flowers’, 13 Northlight , 160 ‘Vergissmeinnicht’ , 13 – 14 , 15 ‘On Roofs of Terry Street’, 229 Downton Abbey, 32 ‘Ratatouille’, 117 Dowson, Jane ‘The Silences’, 229 Cambridge Companion to St Kilda’s Parliament , 125 Twentieth-Century British and Irish ‘The Sportsmen’, 117 Women’s Poetry , 232 Terry Street , 125 , 126 , 229 See also History of Twentieth Century ‘The Terry Street Fusiliers’, 229 British Women’s Poetry ‘Washing the Coins’, 125 Dream State: The New Scottish Poets , 149 Durham University, 248 , 249 Dubé, Janet Durrell, Lawrence, 28 ‘I Shall Get Stopped’, 200 Dymock, Emma, 153 ‘It’ll Take a Long Time’, 200 Duffy, Carol Ann, 2 , 36 , 110 , 158 , 198 , 200 , Eagleton, Terry, 125 , 251 205 , 206 , 208 – 9 , 250 , 254 Eardley, John, 156 ‘Eurydice’, 208 Easthope, Antony, 119 –20 ‘Frau Freud’, 208 The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century ‘Mrs Aesop’, 208 Scottish Poetry , 149 The Other Country , 206 Edwards, Ken, 87 ‘Poet for Our Times’, 110 – 11 Intensive Care , 87 – 8 ‘Psychopath’, 208 Reality Street Editions, 87 ‘Pygmalion’s Bride’, 208 Reality Studios , 87 ‘Queen Kong’, 208 ‘Their Daily Island Life’, 87 – 8 ‘Standing Female Nude’, 208 ‘The We Expression’, 88 The World’s Wife , 208 – 9 See also The New British Poetry, 1968–1988 Dun, Aidan, 239 Edwards, Rhian, 173 The Uninhabitable City , 238 Eliot, T.S., 1 , 2 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 14 , 22 , 27 , 87 , Vale Royal , 238 148 , 149 , 167 , 247 , 254 Duncan, Andrew, 65 – 6 , 92 ‘dissociation of sensibility’, 14 Duncan, Lesley The Waste Land , 63 , 190 See The Edinburgh Book of Elfyn, Menna, 171 Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry Éluard, Paul, 19 Duncan, Robert, 89 Emory University, 252 Dunkirk, 10 Empson, William, 1 , 246 Dunmore, Helen, 205 Encounter , 45 ‘Wild Strawberries’, 207 The English Intelligencer , 86 Dunn, Douglas, 59 , 117 – 18 , 124 , 159 – 60 , English Subject Centre, 240 229 , 249 , 253 Enitharmon Press, 118 ‘A Removal from Terry Street’, 229 Enright, D.J., 32 The Barbarians , 125 , 128 Entwistle, Alice ‘The Come-On’, 124 , 125 See History of Twentieth Century British Elegies , 118 , 125 , 160 Women’s Poetry Europa’s Lover , 117 Esam, John, 75 The Faber Book of Modern Scottish Evaristo, Bernardine, 186 , 191 Poetry , 149 Ten Poets Spread the Word , 181 , 191 ‘Gardeners’, 125 ‘Why it Matters’, 191 ‘Glasgow Schoolboys, Running Backwards’, 125 Faber and Faber, 14 , 27 , 110 , 148 , 167 , 168 ‘Green Breeks’, 126 The Faber Book of Modern Scottish Poetry , 149 277

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Fainlight, Harry, 75 ‘Glenthorne Poems’, 63 ‘The Spider’, 76 ‘It is Writing’, 63 Fairbairns, Zoë, 199 ‘Matrix’, 63 Fairfax, John, 240 – 41 The Ship’s Orchestra , 113 Family Allowances Act, 118 ‘Texts for a Film’, 62 Fantasy Press, 28 , 243 Flipped Eye Press, 192 New Poems , 243 Flynn, Leontia, 135 , 142 – 3 Fanthorpe. U.A., 205 , 207 – 8 ‘The Morning After Ruth’s Going-Away ‘Not My Best Side’, 207 Party’, 143 ‘Only Here for the Bier’, 207 ‘Two Crossings’, 142 ‘Waiting Gentlewoman’, 207 – 8 Forrest-Thomson, Veronica Farley, Paul, 128 , 230 Collected Poems and Translations , 157 The Boy from the Chemist Is Here Fortune Press, 28 to See You , 230 France, Linda ‘Brutalist’, 128 Sixty Women Poets , 197 – 8 , 203 Tramp in Flames , 128 Frankfurt School, 14 ‘Treacle’, 230 Franssen, Gaston, 69 Feaver, Vicki, 205 Fraser, G.S., 16 , 150 ‘Judith’, 209 Frazer, Sir James George ‘Women’s Blood’, 207 The Golden Bough , 20 Feinstein, Elaine, 205 French surrealism, 16 Fell, Alison, 199 , 205 Freud, Sigmund, 16 , 41 , 44 ‘For Maria Burke’, 200 – 01 Fuller, John, 40 , 108 – 09 Fellows, Gerrie, 161 W.H. Auden: A Commentary , 40 Feminism and Poetry , 198 , 201 , 206 Fulton, Graham, 161 Fenton, James, 100 – 102 , 113 ‘A Staffordshire Murder’, 101 – 02 , 104 Gabriella, Katharyn Rosa ‘Letter to John Fuller’, 108 ‘An Item of BBC News’, 200 The Memory of War , 101 Gairm , 159 ‘Of the Martian School’, 100 Gamble, Miriam, 142 Ferguson, Sir Samuel, 134 Gardiner, Muriel Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 74 , 75 Code Name ‘Mary’ , 46 Festival of Britain, 31 Garioch, Robert, 149 , 150 Fey, Emil, 46 Complete Poetical Works , 154 Fiacc, Padraic, 136 ‘Edinburgh Sonnets’, 154 Field Day, 130 , 133 ‘The Muir’, 154 Finch, Peter, 174 ‘The Puir Family’, 154 ‘Hills’, 174 ‘The Wire’, 154 Findlay, Alistair 17 Poems for 6d , 154 Scotia Nova: For the Early Days of a See also MacLean, Sorley Better Nation , 150 Garlick, Raymond, 163 , 169 – 70 ‘First Flowering’ (of Anglophone Welsh Gascoyne, David, 16 Poetry), 163 , 164 , 167 , 169 , 174 ‘And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of First World War, 11 Isis’, 18 – 19 Fisher, Allen, 82 , 89 – 90 , 91 , 238 Man’s Life is this Meat , 18 Place , 89 – 90 , 237 , 239 Poems 1937 to 1942 , 20 Place Book One , 237 A Vagrant and Other Poems, 20 Fisher, Catherine, 170 Gaughan, Dick, 151 ‘Gwern-y-Cleppa’, 170 Gifford, Douglas Fisher, Roy, 62 , 82 , 85 Scotlands: Poets and the Nation , 150 A Furnace , 62 , 63 – 5 Gilfi llan, Carol, 207 City , 62 , 237 , 238 Gillis, Alan, 135 , 142 The Cut Pages , 63 ‘The Ulster Way’, 142 278

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Ginsberg, Allen, 71 , 74 , 75 ‘La Prisonnière’, 35 Howl , 69 ‘Lerici’, 1 Giovanni, Nikki, 186 Gwenallt, 165 Glasgow, 128 Gypsy Rose Lee, 43 Glasgow University, 156 , 247 , 253 – 4 Department of Scottish Literature, 151 – 2 Hadfi eld, Jen, 160 Glossator , 91 Hague, Gill Glover, Jon ‘For a Housewife’, 200 See The Penguin Book of First World Hall, Donald, 243 , 244 War Prose Hall, Stuart, 181 Godwin, Tony, 29 Halliday, Caroline Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 44 ‘Confession’, 199 – 200 Italian Journey , 44 , 49 Hamburger, Michael, 3 , 118 Goodsir Smith, Sydney, 149 , 154 – 5 Hamilton, Ian, 6 , 25 , 132 ‘The Grace of God and the The New Review , 6 Meth-Drinker’, 154 The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Under the Eildon Tree , 155 Century Poetry , 179 Gorman, John, 71 The Review , 6 Gorman, Rody, 160 Hamilton-Emery, Chris, 85 Gowrie, Grey, 44 Hamilton Finlay, Ian, 156 , 159 , Graham, Davy, 75 215 – 6 , 226 Graham, W.S., 1 , 8 , 89 , 149 , 152 , 155 ‘Detached Sentences on Gardening’, 217 Collected Poems , 152 ‘Kamikaze Butterfl ies’, 216 ‘Language Ah Now you Have Me’, 113 Little Sparta, 215 – 6 ‘Loch Thom’, 152 ‘Net/Planet’, 216 Malcolm Mooney’s Land , 89 ‘Wave/Rock’, 216 The Nightfi shing , 22 – 3 , 152 Hampson, Robert, 109 – 10 ‘The Nightfi shing’, 152 Hannah, Sophie, 205 ‘What is the language using us for?’, 152 Hansib press, 188 Graves, Robert, 30 Harding, A.E., 48 The White Goddess , 20 Hardy, Thomas, 3 , 34 Greacen, Robert, 135 , 136 , 137 Harris, Maggie, 205 – 6 Greenlaw, Lavinia, 205 Harrison, Tony, 36 , 113 , 117 , 118 – 21 , 122 , Gregory, Eric, 246 – 7 124 , 126 , 127 , 248 , 249 , 253 Gregory Fellowships, 246 – 7 ‘A Good Read’, 117 Gregson, Ian, 251 ‘Bookends’, 117 , 119 Greig, Andrew, 160 ‘Confessional Poetry’, 119 Men on Ice , 160 Continuous , 118 This Life, This Life , 160 ‘Cypress and Cedar’, 117 Grenier, Robert, 90 ‘Facing North’, 117 Grieve, C.M ‘The Lords of Life’, 117 See MacDiarmid, Hugh Loiners , 118 , 119 Griffi n, Howard, 42 ‘Long Distance’, 126 Griffi ths, Bill, 82 ‘Marked with D’, 117 , 119 Groarke, Vona, 254 ‘Rhubarbarians’, 128 Gross, Philip ‘The School of Eloquence’, 36 , 117 , 119 ‘Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA’, 228 Selected Poems , 119 The Water Table , 228 ‘Social Mobility’, 117 ‘The Group’, 240 , 244 , 245 , 246 , 251 v. , 36 , 120 , 122 Guardian newspaper, 242 Hart, Mike, 71 Gunn, Thom, 1 , 32 , 35 , 45 , 57 , 102 Hawkins, Spike, 75 ‘Elvis Presley’, 1 Hay, George Campbell, 149 , 150 , 159 Fighting Terms , 28 Mochtàr is Dùghall , 159 279

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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 2 High Zero , 91 The Flaming of the Rod , 2 Hill, Geoffrey, 4 , 6 , 8 , 56 , 59 – 60 , 61 , 65 , Tribute to the Angels , 2 118 , 135 , 243 , 244 Trilogy , 2 ‘An Apology for the Revival of Christian The Walls do not Fall , 2 Architecture in England’, 60 Heaney, Seamus, 5 , 59 , 113 , 117 , 120 , 130 , Canaan , 60 131 , 132 , 133 – 34 , 135 , 136 , 140 , ‘The Distant Fury of Battle’, 59 141 , 251 Fantasy Press pamphlet, 243 ‘An Open Letter’, 130 – 32 , 133 – 34 , 135 , 140 For the Unfallen , 59 Beowulf , 5 ‘Funeral Music’, 59 – 60 Bog Poems, 5 ‘Genesis’, 243 Death of a Naturalist , 117 King Log , 60 ‘Digging’, 117 Mercian Hymns , 4 , 46 , 60 ‘Exposure’, 134 The Mystery of the Charity of Charles ‘Follower’, 117 Péguy , 59 ‘The Ministry of Fear’, 134 ‘September Song’, 59 ‘The Other Side’, 142 Speech! Speech! , 6 , 113 ‘Personal Helicon’, 133 See also Oxford Poetry ‘Terminus’, 140 Hill, Selima, 206 Wintering Out , 134 History of Twentieth Century British See also O’Driscoll, Dennis , Women’s Poetry , 197 , 198 Stepping Stones Hitler, Adolf, 41 Heath-Stubbs, John, 2 , 15 , 248 Hix Eros , 91 Heisenberg, Werner Hobsbaum, Philip, 240 , 244 , 245 , 251 – 3 Uncertainty Principle, 90 Hoggart, Richard, 117 , 229 Hellman, Lilian The Uses of Literacy , 118 Pentimento , 46 Hölderlin, Friedrich, 15 Henderson, Hamish, 150 Hollo, Anselm, 75 ‘The Ballad of the D-Day Dodgers’, 151 Holloway, John Elegies for the Dead in Cyreneica , 151 The Minute and Longer Poems , 28 ‘Freedom Come All Ye’, 151 Hoffman, Michael, 62 ‘The John MacLean March’, 151 Homer, 254 ‘The 51st Highland Division’s Farewell to Hood, Thomas, 15 Sicily’, 151 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 82 Hendry, J.F. ‘The Windhover’, 209 The New Apocalypse , 16 Hopkins, John, 75 The White Horseman , 16 See also Lovebooks Limited Henri, Adrian, 71 , 72 , 77 , 78 Horace, 254 ‘The Entry of Christ into Liverpool’, 72 – 4 Horovitz, Frances, 77 , 206 Tonight at Noon , 71 Horovitz, Michael, 75 Hens in the Hay , 199 Children of Albion , 77 Herbert, George, 163 New Departures , 69 Herbert, W.N. Houédard, Dom Sylvester, 216 Contrafl ow on the Superhighway , 150 Houston, Libby, 77 ‘Dingle Dell’, 150 A Stained Glass Raree Show , 77 Heretics poetry group, 159 ‘On Being a Woman Poet’, 77 – 8 Hesse, Eva Hughes, Ted, 2 , 57 – 9 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 108 , 135 , New Approaches to Ezra Pound , 35 136 , 215 , 224 , 240 , 245 , 251 Hewitt, John, 135 , 136 , 137 Crow , 3 , 4 , 57 ‘The Colony’, 137 ‘A Dream of Horses’, 30 – 31 , 55 No Rebel Word, 136 The Hawk in the Rain , 57 , 58 ‘Once Alien Here’, 137 ‘The Hawk in the Rain’, 57 – 8 ‘The Planter and the Gael’, 137 ‘Pike’, 58 – 9 280

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‘The Thought-Fox’, 58 Inglan is a Bitch , 185 Wodwo , 57 ‘Sonny’s Lettah’, 185 Hull, 118 , 251 Jones, David, 4 , 39 , 49 Hulse, Michael, 251 The Anathémata , 3 , 49 , 50 , 64 The New Poetry , 8 In Parenthesis , 47 , 50 Hutchinson, Mary, 233 ‘The Lady of the Pool’, 50 Hyland, M.J., 254 The Sleeping Lord , 49 , 50 ‘The Tutelar of the Place’, 50 Iliad , 234 Jones, Glyn, 163 – 4 , 165 , 169 Imagists, 34 ‘The Apple Tree’, 164 Imlach, Hamish, 151 The Blue Bed , 164 Imlah, Mick, 161 The Dragon Has Two Tongues , 163 The Lost Leader , 161 ‘Merthyr’, 164 The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse , 150 ‘Porth-y-Rhyd’, 164 Indica Gallery, 77 Setting Out , 163 – 4 ‘Inscribe’ initiative, 191 The Water Music , 164 International Book Fair of Radical Black and Jones, Jenny, 203 , 206 Third World Books, 184 Jones, Leroi, 185 International Poetry Incarnation, 74 – 7 Jones, Mab, 173 Ireland, Republic of, 5 , 116 Joyce, James, 16 , 243 Irigaray, Luce, 209 Finnegans Wake , 49 Irish Free State, 131 Jung, Carl Gustav, 16 Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 131 Isherwood, Christopher, 39 , 40 Kafka, Franz, 16 The Dog Beneath the Skin , 42 Kallman, Chester, 41 Kane, Daniel, 75 Jackson, Alan, 159 Kantaris, Sylvia, 206 The Grim Wayfarer , 159 Kaplan, Cora, 250 Jacob, Violet, 149 Kaprow, Robert, 71 Jacobs. A.C., 246 Karnak press, 186 Jaffe, Rhoda, 49 Kavanagh, Patrick, 5 , 137 James, Henry, 41 Kay, Jackie, 158 , 181 , 187 , 192 , 205 , 206 , 209 Jameson, Fredric, 236 The Adoption Papers , 158 , 188 , 210 – 11 Jamie, Kathleen, 158 – 9 , 215 , 253 Kazantsis, Judith, 200 ‘Daisies’, 222 ‘The Bath’, 200 , 201 , 207 The Tree House , 222 , 224 ‘Medea’, 200 The Wishing Tree , 222 , 223 ‘Mrs Noah’, 200 Jamieson, Robert Allan, 160 ‘Towards an Abortion’, 200 Jandl, Ernst, 75 Keats, John Jarrell, Randall, 40 , 48 ‘negative capability’, 90 Jeffrey, William, 149 Kelly, Robert Jenkins, Lee M., 232 – 3 Against the Code , 89 Jenkins, Mike, 172 , 173 Kennedy, Christine Barkin’ , 172 ‘Terms of Engagement: Experimental ‘Gwyn Alf’, 172 Poetry and its Others’, 85 ‘Mouthy’, 172 Kennedy, David Red Landscapes , 172 Douglas Dunn , 229 Jenkins, Nigel, 171 The New Poetry , 8 Jennings, Elizabeth, 6 , 28 , 32 , 35 ‘Terms of Engagement: Experimental Poems (1953), 28 Poetry and its Others’, 85 Johnson, Linton Kwesi, 36 , 184 – 5 , 188 , Kerrigan, John, 63 189 , 192 Keyes, Sidney, 14 Dread Beat and Blood , 179 , 185 ‘The Anti-Symbolist’, 15 281

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Khalvati, Mimi, 205 , 206 ‘The Six O’Clock News’, 127 Kinloch, David, 160 ‘Skills’, 127 Kinsella, John Unrelated Incidents , 127 Vanishing Points , 85 Leonni, Paul, 75 Kinsella, Thomas, 5 Lepetit, Claude The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse , 133 Rivière des Gobelins , 238 Kipling, Rudyard, 3 Levertov, Denise, 203 ‘If’, 182 ‘A Tree Telling of Orpheus’, 203 Kirkland, Richard, 133 , 136 , 137 ‘Hypocrite Women’, 203 Kirkup, James, 248 ‘The Mutes’, 203 Knight, Stephen Levy, Andrea, 181 ‘The Heart of Saturday Night’, 172 Lewis, Alun, 2 , 168 Kramer, Lotte, 206 ‘All Day It Has Rained’, 168 Lewis, Gwyneth, 171 – 2 Lacey, Bruce, 75 ‘Her End’, 172 Ladkin, Sam, 92 Keeping Mum , 171 – 2 Lady Chatterley ban, 28 , 29 ‘What’s in a Name?’, 172 ‘Lake School’, 109 Y Llofrudd Iaith , 172 Lancaster University, 247 Lewis, Saunders, 165 , 168 – 9 , 174 L=A-N=G=U=A=G=E , 90 – 91 ‘Tynged ye Iaith’, 169 Language poets, 91 Licking the Bed Clean , 199 Larkin, Philip, 1 , 2 , 3 , 25 – 6 , 32 – 4 , 35 – 6 , 57 , Lindsay, Maurice, 148 , 149 61 , 102 , 107 , 135 , 136 , 139 See also The Edinburgh Book of ‘Annus Mirabilis’, 28 Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry ‘At Grass’, 30 , 55 and Modern Scottish Poetry ‘Church-Going’, 36 , 54 Liverpool John Moores University, 247 ‘The Importance of Elsewhere’, 139 Liverpool poets, 70 , 71 – 4 The Less Deceived , 28 Liverpool scene, 69 ‘Lines in a Young Lady’s Photograph The Liverpool Scene (anthology) Album’, 104 See Lucie-Smith, Edward ‘MCMXIV’, 4 The Liverpool Scene (group), 71 The North Ship , 1 , 28 Lloyd, David, 120 La Rose, John, 184 , 186 Llywelyn-Williams, Alan, 165 New Beacon Books, 184 Lochhead, Liz, 125 , 127 – 28 , 157 , 158 , 206 Latham, John, 75 A Choosing , 128 Lawrence, D.H., 14 , 30 , 31 Bagpipe Muzak , 128 Lady Chatterley’s Lover , 28 , 29 The Colour of Black and White , 128 The Rainbow , 31 Dreaming Frankenstein & Collected Leavis, F.R., 245 , 254 Poems , 157 Leeds, 7 , 118 , 245 , 248 ‘The Garden Festival, Glasgow Lefebvre, Henri, 236 1988’, 128 The Left Review , 167 The Grimm Sisters , 157 Leishmann, J.B., 44 Islands , 157 Lennon, Peter, 132 ‘Kidspoem/Bairnsang’, 128 Leonard, Tom, 125 , 127 , 159 Medea , 157 ‘Being a Human Being’, 127 Memo for Spring , 157 ‘Good Style’, 127 ‘Mirror’s Song’, 158 Intimate Voices , 127 , 159 Logue, Christopher, 75 ‘No Light’, 127 War Music , 47 Outside the Narrative , 159 London ‘Group’ ‘Poetry’, 127 See ‘The Group’ ‘The Proof of the Mince Pie’, 127 London International Surrealist Six Glasgow Poems , 127 , 159 Exhibition, 19 282

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London Review of Books (LRB ), 100 MacLean, Sorley, 149 , 150 – 51 , 152 – 53 , ‘London Underground’, 69 , 70 , 76 158 , 159 Longley, Edna, 126 , 135 , 138 , 140 , 251 ‘An Cuilithionn’ / ‘The Cuillin’, 153 Longley, Michael, 59 , 132 , 133 , 134 , 135 , Caoir Gheal Leumraich / White Leaping 136 , 139 – 41 , 251 Flame: Collected Poems , 152 ‘Alibis’, 142 ‘Coin is Madaidhean-allaidh’ / ‘Dogs and ‘Altera Cithera’, 134 Wolves’, 153 ‘The Echo Gate’, 141 Dáin do Eimhir , 152 Gorse Fires , 141 ‘Hallaig’, 153 ‘The Hebrides’, 141 ‘Screapadal’, 153 ‘No Man’s Land’, 141 Spring Tide and Ebb; Selected ‘Wind-Farmer’, 141 Poems , 152 Lorca, Federico Garcia, 150 17 Poems for 6d , 154 Lovebooks Limited, 77 See also Garioch, Robert Lovell, Anna, 77 Macmillan, Harold Lowell, Robert, 31 , 44 , 46 , 56 , 60 , 108 ‘Wind of Change’ speech, 31 Lucas, John, 251 MacNeacail, Aonghas, 160 Lucie-Smith, Edward, 71 , 251 MacNeice, Louis, 2 , 39 , 43 , 46 , 135 , 136 – 39 , A Group Anthology , 245 140 , 165 British Poetry Since 1945 , 131 ‘All Over Again’, 138 The Liverpool Scene , 71 , 77 Autumn Journal , 138 – 9 Lumsden, Roddy, 161 Autumn Sequel , 2 , 47 – 8 Identity Parade , 230 ‘Bagpipe Music’, 46 , 128 ‘Belfast’, 139 MacBeth, George, 75 , 118 , 251 The Burning Perch , 47 MacCaig, Norman, 16 , 149 , 150 , 155 ‘Coda’, 138 Far Cry , 155 The Dark Tower , 47 The Inward Eye , 155 Faust translation, 47 ‘Poems for Angus’, 155 Letters from Iceland , 47 Riding Lights, 155 Out of the Picture , 47 MacDiarmid, Hugh, 148 , 152 , 156 , 158 , ‘Snow’, 137 – 8 161 , 165 ‘Spring Sunshine’, 138 The Battle Continues , 150 ‘Train to Dublin’, 138 , 139 Collected Poems , 152 Visitations , 2 Complete Poems , 152 ‘The Window’, 138 The Golden Treasury of Scottish ‘Wolves’, 139 Poetry , 149 MacSweeney, Barry, 249 In Memoriam James Joyce , 3 , 152 Mahon, Derek, 2 , 132 , 133 , 135 , 136 , 139 The Kind of Poetry I Want , 152 ‘Cavafy’, 134 ‘Perfect’, 165 ‘Grandfather’, 140 The Revolutionary Art of the ‘In Belfast’, 139 , 140 , 143 Future , 150 ‘The Last of the Fire Kings’, 134 , 140 MacGill-Eain, Somhairle. See Maclean, Night-Crossing , 143 Sorley Sphere Book of Modern Irish Poetry , 133 MacGreevy, Thomas, 5 ‘Spring in Belfast’, 139 Mackay Brown, George, 153 ‘The Window’, 140 Fishermen with Ploughs , 153 Making for the Open , 250 ‘Hamnavoe’, 153 Malika’s Kitchen group, 191 ‘Ikey: His Will in Winter Written’, 153 Manchester, 84 ‘The Old Women’, 153 Manchester Metropolitan University, 247 , ‘Uranium’, 153 253 , 254 Winterfold , 153 Mango Publishing, 188 The Year of the Whale , 153 Mann, Erika, 41 283

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Mann, Thomas, 41 Meredith, George Manson, Peter, 92 ‘Modern Love’, 113 Markham, E.A. Merrill, James, 44 Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the The Mersey Sound , 71 , 72 , 74 , 77 West Indies and Britain , 187 Merseyside Arts Festival, 71 Marson, Una, 178 , 182 – 3 Mersey poets, 70 ‘If’, 182 See also Liverpool poets Martian school and Martianism, 100 , 101 , Metaphor Men, 7 104 , 105 , 106 , 109 , 110 , 113 Mew, Charlotte, 206 Marvell, Andrew Michelangelo, 11 ‘To His Coy Mistress’, 209 Middleton, Christopher, 3 , 62 Marvell Press, 28 Middleton, Peter, 75 Marx, Karl, 16 , 41 , 64 , 94 Migrant Press, 237 Das Kapital , 94 Miller, Kei, 192 Marxism, 90 Mills, Brian, 76 Mathias, Roland, 163 , 165 See also Lovebooks Limited Mavericks , 244 Milne, Drew, 85 – 6 Maxwell, Glyn, 139 ‘Agoraphobia’, 91 Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 156 ‘Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Mayer, Elizabeth Orientations’, 85 Italian Journey (Goethe) translation with Milton, John, 243 , 244 Auden, 49 Minhinnick, Robert, 171 , 173 Mayhew, Henry ‘The Orchards of Cwm-y-Gaer’, 173 London Labour and the London Poor , 121 Mitchell, Adrian, 69 , 75 , 78 , 251 McAuliffe, John, 254 ‘To Whom It May Concern’, 76 McCarey, Peter, 160 Mitchell, Elma, 206 Collected Contraptions , 160 Moat, John, 240 The Syllabary , 160 Modernism, 35 , 167 , 168 McCarthy-Woolf, Karen Modernists, 34 An Aviary of Small Birds , 190 – 91 Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of Ten: the New Wave , 191 the Scottish Renaissance , 148 McCartney, Mike, 71 Mohin, Lilian McCullers, Carson, 43 One Foot on the Mountain , 197 , 198 – 9 , McDonald, Peter, 135 , 136 200 , 201 , 206 McFadden, Roy, 135 , 136 , 137 Monk, Geraldine, 78 , 82 , 83 – 4 , 94 McGillivray, Pittendrigh, 149 Cusp , 82 – 3 McGinn, Matt, 151 ‘Hidden Critics’, 84 McGough, Roger, 71 , 74 Interregnum , 84 McGrath, Tom, 75 Monroe, Marilyn, 156 McGuckian, Medbh, 132 , 135 , 142 , 205 , Montague, John, 133 , 135 , 136 , 137 206 , 250 ‘A Lost Tradition’, 137 McGuinness, Patrick, 168 The Faber Book of Irish Verse , 133 McGuire, Ian, 254 Montefi ore, Jan McLeod, John, 179 See Feminism and Poetry McMillan, Dorothy Moore, Henry, 247 Modern Scottish Women Poets , 150 Moore, Marianne, 43 , 44 , 60 – 61 McNaughton, Adam Moore, Nicholas, 16 ‘The Jeelie Piece Song’, 151 Morgan, Edwin, 128 , 150 , 151 , ‘Oor Hamlet’, 151 155 – 7 , 158 Menard Press, 251 A Book of Lives , 157 Mendelson, Edward, 40 , 42 – 3 A.V. A Trilogy of Plays on the Life of Mengham, Rod Jesus Christ , 157 Vanishing Points , 85 ‘The Apple’s Song’, 156 284

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Cathures , 157 Mslexia , 248 Collected Poems , 157 Muir, Edwin, 149 , 150 Collected Translations , 157 An Autobiography , 150 ‘The Computer’s First Christmas Collected Poems (1965), 150 Card’, 156 Collected Poems 1921–1951 , 150 Demon , 157 ‘The Good Town’, 150 From Glasgow to Saturn , 156 ‘The Horses’, 150 Glasgow Sonnets , 156 The Labyrinth , 150 Hold Hands Among the Atoms , 157 One Foot in Eden , 150 Instamatic Poems , 156 ‘Scotland’s Winter’, 150 ‘In the snack-bar’, 156 The Voyage , 150 ‘The Loch Ness Monster’s Song’, 156 Muldoon, Paul, 43 , 59 , 113 , 117 , 132 , 135 , ‘Love and Life’, 157 137 – 8 , 142 , 251 The New Divan , 156 ‘Cherish the Ladies’, 117 The Play of Gilgamesh , 157 ‘The Coney’, 117 Poems of Thirty Years , 156 The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish The Second Life , 156 Poetry , 137 Sonnets from Scotland , 156 ‘The Mirror, 117 Star Gate , 156 Meeting the British , 117 ‘Trio’, 156 New Weather , 117 Virtual and Other Realities , 157 Quoof , 117 The Vision of Cathkin Braes , 155 ‘Twice’, 142 Morley, David, 251 ‘The Waking Father’, 117 The New Poetry , 8 ‘7 Middagh Street’, 43 Morris, Marianne, 92 Mulford, Wendy, 204 – 5 , 206 Morris, Tina, 77 ‘Notes on Writing: a Marxist/Feminist Morrissey, Sinéad, 135 , 142 , 206 , 233 – 4 , Viewpoint’, 204 236 , 250 , 252 Murphy, Michael, 71 ‘The High Window’, 233 Murry, John Middleton, 14 ‘In Belfast’, 143 Parallax , 233 Nagra, Daljit, 189 , 192 Morrison, Blake, 32 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , ‘Kabba Questions the Ontology of 113 , 117 , 118 – 19 Representation, the Catch 22 for ‘The Ballad of the Yorkshire ‘Black’ Writers’, 189 Ripper’, 105 – 06 Look We Have Coming to Dover , 189 See also The Penguin Book of The New Poets Spread the Word , 181 Contemporary British Poetry Naipaul, V.S., 178 Mort, Helen, 128 , 242 , 250 Namjoshi, Suniti, 206 Divisions Street , 128 Narrative poetry, 110 , 113 ‘Pit Closure as a Tarantino Short’, 128 Nasta, Susheila, 189 ‘Scab’, 128 National Assistance Act, 118 Motion, Andrew, 99 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 National Association of Writers in Education ‘Dangerous Play’, 104 (NAWE), 240 ‘Joe Soap’, 106 National Curriculum for English, 189 , 192 Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life , 33 National Insurance Act, 118 Secret Narratives , 234 National Insurance – Industrial Injuries Selected Poems 1976–97 , 106 Act, 118 See also The Penguin Book of National Service, 244 Contemporary British Poetry Neo-Romanticism, 1 , 27 , 54 Mottram, Eric, 87 New Apocalypse, 16 See also The New British Poetry, 1968–1988 Newcastle University, 247 , 248 , 249 ‘Movement’, 1 , 2 , 3 , 6 , 12 , 20 , 22 – 3 , 25 – 38 , Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 248 , 249 54 , 56 , 60 , 62 , 65 , 100 ‘New Poetry’, 20 285

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New Formations , 71 – 2 ‘Projective Verse’, 75 , 89 New Generation poetry, 110 , 111 , 113 , Special View of History , 90 114 , 128 Onedit , 91 New British Poetry , 8 , 85 , 144 n.23 ‘Open Field’ poetry, 84 The New British Poetry, 1968–1988 , 29 , Oppen, George, 3 187 , 205 Orkney Islands, 64 ‘New Narrative’, 113 Ormsby, Frank, 135 The New Penguin Book of Scottish Poets from the North of Ireland , 133 Verse , 150 O’Rourke, Donny, 150 New Poems Orwell, George, 30 See Fantasy Press O’Sullivan, Maggie, 78 , 82 The New Poetry Oswald, Alice, 215 , 224 – 6 See Alvarez, A. Dart , 4 , 224 – 6 New York School, 44 Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian New Statesman , 100 Poets , 188 New Writing Scotland , 149 Owen, Wilfred, 11 The New Yorker , 30 Oxford, 249 , 251 Nichols, Grace, 185 , 186, 188 , 192 , Oxford Poetry , 243 206 , 209 – 10 Oxford University Press, 124 ‘Fat Black Woman’, 207 , 210 I Is a Long Memoried Woman , 186 , 210 Padel, Ruth, 206 ‘Shopping’, 210 Paisley, Janet, 158 Nimmo, Dorothy, 206 Paris, 64 The North , 122 Parker, Stewart, 131 Northern Arts, 248 Parkinson, W.E., 248 Northern House, 118 , 248 , 251 , 253 Parry-Williams, T.H., 165 Northern Ireland, 4 – 5 , 116 , 130 – 47 Paterson, Don, 8 , 110 , 111 – 12 , 123 , Northumbria University, 249 160 , 253 Notting Hill Riots, 31 ‘An Elliptical Stylus’, 124 Nuttall, Jeff, 69 , 75 ‘A Talking Book’, 111 ‘The Alexandrian Library’, 112 Object Permanence , 91 New British Poetry , 5 , 8 , 85 Objectivist tradition, 61 Nil Nil , 124 O’Brien, Sean, 122 – 23 , 124 , 126 Patten, Brian, 71 , 74 ‘A Corridor’, 122 Paulin, Tom, 131 , 251 Cousin Coat , 123 ‘Pavillion Poetry’, 236 ‘Cousin Coat’, 123 , 124 Paz, Octavio, 61 ‘Fireweed’, 123 Pears, Peter, 39 , 43 November , 123 Peepal Tree Press, 188 , 192 ‘On the Toon’, 122 The Penguin Book of Contemporary British ‘Oysterity’, 123 Poetry, ed Motion and Morrison, 2 , 4 , ‘Sunk Island’, 123 6 , 29 , 99 – 100 , 130 , 131 – 32 Observer , 249 The Penguin Book of First World War O’Driscoll, Dennis, 229 Prose , 250 Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus The Penguin Book of Women Poets , 250 Heaney , 140 Penguin Books, 28 , 55 , 110 , 192 Odyssey , 243 Penguin Modern Poets , 28 , 29 , 71 O’Grady, Joseph, 131 Peterloo Poets, 118 O’Hara, Frank Phillips, Caryl, 189 Lunch Poems , 237 Phillips, Robert, 33 Olsen, Tillie, 77 Piaf, Edith, 156 Olson, Charles, 86 , 89 , 90 Picador, 123 , 253 The Maximus Poems , 83 , 237 Picasso, Pablo, 16 286

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Pickard, Tom, 3 , 121 – 22 , 124 – 25 , 248 , 249 Prince, F.T. ‘The Ballad of Jamie Allan’, 122 ‘Soldiers Bathing’, 11 – 12 , 13 , 14 ‘Birthplace Bronchitis’, 121 Prudence Farmer Award, 100 – 101 High on the Walls , 121 Purser, John, 160 Morden Tower poetry centre, 248 Prynne, J.H., 8 , 60 , 86 , 87 , 90 , 92 , 93 , 251 Tiepin Eros/Typing Errors , 122 Down Where Changed , 90 , 91 Ultima Thule bookshop, 248 ‘Letter to Steve McCaffery’, 91 ‘Unemployed’, 122 ‘Sketch for a Financial Theory of ‘Who is the Whore of Armageddon?’, 122 the Self’ , 91 Piers Plowman , 48 Pugh, Shena, 206 Plaid Cymru, 169 Purves, Robin, 92 Plath, Sylvia, 55 , 56 , 60 , 61 , 108 , 203 , Pushkin, Alexander 204 , 250 Eugene Onegin , 234 ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’, 203 Pybus, Rodney, 249 PN Review , 253 Pylon poets, 10 Poetry and Audience , 118 , 246 Poetry Book Society, 33 Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Poetry Business , 242 Education (QAA), 240 Poetry Café, 77 Queen’s University, Belfast, 247 , 251 – 2 Poetry (Chicago), 244 See also Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Poetry Incarnation, 69 Quid , 91 See also International Poetry Incarnation Poetry London , 206 Raban, Jonathan Poetry Nation , 253 Soft City , 232 The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, Scots and Race Today Collective, 184 English , 150 Raine, Craig, 7 , 100 – 101 , 102 , 106 – 07 , Poetry Review , 87 , 206 109 , 117 Poetry Scotland , 149 A Martian Sends a Postcard Home , 100 The Poetry Society, 87 , 123 ‘A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’, 100 ‘New Generation Poets’, 192 ‘Floods’, 103 Poetry: the Nottingham Collection , 251 The Onion, Memory , 102 Poetry Wales , 169 , 170 Postcard , 103 Pollaiulo, Antonio del, 11 Raine, Kathleen, 2 , 22 , 39 , 203 The Battle of the Nudes , 12 ‘Amo Ergo Sum’, 22 Pollard, Natalie The Pythoness , 22 Speaking to You , 7 – 8 ‘Storm’, 22 Polley, Jacob ‘Word Made Flesh’, 22 ‘The North-South Divide’, 229 – 30 ‘The Unloved’, 22 Pope, Alexander, 82 , 93 The Year One , 22 Porter, Peter, 126 , 132 , 135 , 249 , 251 Ramey, Lauri, 179 Postmodern, 3 , 4 Random House, 41 , 44 Postmodernism, 3 Ransford, Tessa, 152 Poststructuralism, 90 Scotia Nova: For the Early Days of a Pound, Ezra, 10 , 11 , 27 , 156 Better Nation , 150 Cantos , 83 , 151 Raworth, Tom, 84 ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’, 113 Act , 83 ‘In a Station of the Metro’, 229 ‘Stag Skull Mounted’, 88 ‘Salutation’ poems, 109 West Wind , 83 , 92 Pre-Raphaelites, 15 Read, Herbert, 10 – 11 , 14 , 19 , 247 Presley, Elvis, 1 Reading, Peter, 104 Price, Richard, 160 – 61 Reality Street Editions, 87 Contrafl ow on the Superhighway , 150 Reality Studios , 87 Price Turner, W., 248 Redgrove, Peter, 56 , 245 , 248 287

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Redmond, John, 102 , 110 ‘Community’, 170 Red Rag , 199 The Forgotten Country , 170 Redstocking Manifesto , 201 Turning Away , 170 Reed, Fred, 249 Robertson, Robin, 161 Reedy, Carlyle, 77 Robson, Jeremy Rees-Jones, Deryn, 71 , 207 , 208 , 209 Young British Poets , 132 Consorting with Angels , 197 , 203 Rodgers, W.R., 135 ‘Liverpool Blues’, 236 Europa and the Bull , 136 Modern Women Poets , 197 – 8 , 205 , 206 Romans VI, 42 , 136 Quiver , 234 , 235 – 6 Rosenberg, Isaac, 13 ‘Quiver’, 236 Rowbotham, Sheila, 245 – 6 See also ‘Pavillion Poetry’ Promise of a Dream , 245 Reid, Christopher, 7 , 100 – 101 , 105 , Rubin, Barbara, 74 – 5 106 , 109 Rudolf, Anthony, 251 Arcadia , 102 Rumens, Carol, 203 , 206 , 251 ‘Baldanders’, 102 – 03 Making for the Open , 197 , 202 Pea Soup , 102 New Women Poets , 205 Reilly, Catherine Rushdie, Salman, 181 Scars Upon My Heart , 250 – 51 Ruskin School of Fine Art, 84 Relich, Mario, 179 Russian Formalists, 113 Rexroth, Kenneth , 44 Rhys, Keidrych Sachs, Hans, 102 Modern Welsh Poetry , 165 Salkey, Andrew, 186 Riach, Alan Saltire Society, 151 Scotlands: Poets and the Nation , 150 Sampson, Fiona, 206 Rich, Adrienne, 250 Sanchez, Sonia, 186 Richtarik, Marilyn, 130 San Francisco Renaissance, 89 Richter, Daniel, 75 Sassoon, Siegfried, 11 Richter, Jill, 75 ‘Satanic School’, 109 Riley, Denise, 59 , 78 , 204 – 5 , 206 Satyamurti, Carole, 206 Am I That Name , 88 Savacou , 186 ‘A note on sex and “the reclaiming of SAKS press, 188 language”’, 88 , 204 Salt and Bitter and Good , 250 ‘A Shortened Set’, 89 Sappho, 254 ‘Laibach Lyric’, 92 Scaffold , 71 ‘Milk Ink’, 88 – 9 Schiller, Friedrich, 44 ‘Problems of Horror’, 93 Schmidt, Michael, 249 , 253 , 254 Wildfi re , 93 Eleven British Poets , 132 Riley, Peter, 86 Scotland, 4 , 148 – 62 , 250 The English Intelligencer , 86 Scotlands: Poets and the Nation , 150 Lines on the Liver , 86 Scott, Alexander, 152 Rilke, Rainer Maria, 15 Scott, Diana Duino Elegies , 44 Bread and Roses , 197 , 206 , 250 Rimbaud, Arthur, 94 ‘Six Poems for Hospital Roberts, Andy, 71 Workers’, 200 Roberts, Lynette, 167 – 8 , 173 , 198 Scott, J.D., 31 Gods with Stainless Ears , 168 Scott, Sir Walter, 126 ‘Poem from Llanybri’, 168 Scott Moncrieff, Ann, 149 Poems , 168 Scottish Poetry Library, 152 Roberts, Michèle, 206 , 207 Scottish Renaissance, 148 Roberts Jones, Sally, 169 , 170 Scovell, E.J., 198 ‘Ann Griffi ths’, 170 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, 252

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Second Flowering (of Anglophone Welsh Simonides, 113 Poetry), 169 Sinclair, Iain, 82 , 237 – 8 Second World War, 10 , 34 , 135 , 148 , 149 , Lud Heat , 4 , 237 – 8 150 , 156 , 159 Suicide Bridge , 4 , 237 Selassie, Haile, 182 Sissay, Lemn, 188 Sergeant, Howard The Fire People , 188 Outposts , 244 Sisson, C.H., 8 Sesay, Kadja Sitwell, Edith, 206 IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Skoulding, Zoë, 238 Writing in Britain , 180 ‘Forest with A-Z of Cardiff’, 238 Write Black Write British , 180 ‘Llanddwyn Beach with directions from Sexton, Anne, 55 , 56 , 61 , 203 , 250 Copenhagen’, 238 Shakespeare, William, 243 ‘Preselis with Brussels Street Map’, 238 Shange, Nitozake, 186 Remains of a Future City , 238 Shapcott, Jo, 198 , 205 , 206 , 207 ‘Teint’, 238 ‘Her Lover’s Ear’, 209 ‘slams’, 241 ‘Goat’, 209 Smartt, Dorothea Tender Taxes , 209 Ship Shape , 181 ‘Vegetable Love’, 209 Smile Smile Smile Smile , 199 Sharpeville massacre, 31 Smith, Hazel, 78 Sheffi eld, 128 Smith, Ken, 118 , 120 , 244 Sheffi eld Hallam University, 247 ‘The Family Group’, 121 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 19 , 190 ‘Fox Running’, 121 Sheppard, Robert, 88 ‘London Poems’, 121 Floating Capital , 84 The Pity , 121 Twentieth Century Blues , 84 Poet Reclining , 121 Warrant Error , 92 Shed , 121 Shklovsky, Viktor, 113 Terra , 121 Silkin, Jon, 118 , 214 – 5 , 243 – 4 , 246 , 248 ‘Wall Dreams’, 121 ‘A Daisy’, 222 , 223 Smith, Stan, 72 , 74 , 111 , 203 – 4 ‘Caring for Animals’, 219 Smith, Stevie, 198 , 203 ‘The Child’s Life’, 221 Collected Poems , 203 – 4 Complete Poems , 249 ‘Not Waving But Drowning’, 204 ‘The Continuance’, 221 ‘Our Bog is Dood’, 204 ‘Defence’, 219 – 20 Smith, Zadie, 181 Gregory Fellow, 243 , 246 Soja, Edward, 236 Nature with Man , 214 , 218 , 219 Sommer, Roy, 188 ‘Nature with Man’, 220 – 21 Sophocles, 243 ‘Note on “Flower” Poems’, 214 – 5 , 218 , Soutar, William, 149 221 , 222 Sowerby, Kathrine The Peaceable Kingdom , 219 , 222 ‘Coastline Disturbance’, 161 ‘Afterword’, 218 Spanish Civil War, 44 The Penguin Book of First World Spare Rib , 199 War Poetry , 250 The Spectator , 25 , 31 The Portrait , 243 – 4 Spence, Lewis, 149 ‘Something Has Been Teased from Spender, Stephen, 39 , 43 – 7 Me’, 221 – 2 ‘Immigration in Reverse’, 44 See also Stand magazine ; The Penguin Love-Hate Relations , 43 Book of First World War Prose The Edge of Being , 45 Simic, Charles ‘Elegy for Margaret’, 45 , 46 , 47 The New British Poetry , 5 , 8 The Making of a Poem , 43 Simmons, James, 133 , 251 ‘Memorial for the City’, 45

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Spender, Stephen (cont.) ‘Among those killed in the Dawn Raid was New Collected Poems , 45 , 46 a Man aged a Hundred’, 20 ‘One More New Botched Beginning’, 47 ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of Poems of Dedication , 44 a Child in London’, 20 ‘Responsibility’, 45 Collected Poems , 27 , 166 ‘Returning to Vienna’, 45 , 46 , 47 ‘Prologue’, 166 Ruins and Visions , 44 Deaths and Entrances , 20 ‘The Generous Days’, 47 ‘Fern Hill’, 166 The Still Centre , 44 ‘The force that through the green fuse The Thirties and After , 43 drives the fl ower’, 17 , 164 Vienna , 45 , 46 ‘In the White Giant’s Thigh’, 164 World Within World , 46 ‘The Lemon’, 164 Stahremberg, Ernst, 46 ‘Light breaks where no sun shines’, 18 Stallworthy, Jon, 136 The Map of Love , 164 Stand magazine , 118 , 244 – 5 , 246 , 248 , ‘The Map of Love’, 164 249 , 251 ‘Over Sir John’s Hill’, 166 Steiner, George ‘Poem in October’, 165 Language and Silence , 30 ‘Return Journey’, 166 Stephen, Ian, 160 ‘The Tree’, 164 Stephens, Meic, 169 , 170 Twenty-Five Poems , 164 Stevens, Wallace, 3 , 60 , 112 Under Milk Wood , 47 Stevenson, Anne, 113 , 206 ‘Vision and Prayer’, 20 ‘Writing as a Woman’, 202 18 Poems , 17 , 164 Stevenson, Gerda, 161 Thomas, Edward, 168 Sigma project Thomas, Gwyn, 163 , 164 See Trocchi, Alexander Thomas, R.S., 29 , 165 – 7 , 169 , 170 , Strategic Bombing Survey, 39 , 45 171 , 173 – 4 Stravinsky, Igor, 156 An Acre of Land , 166 SuAndi, 185 ‘A Peasant’. 165 , 170 , 174 Suez crisis, 32 ‘A Thicket in Lleyn’, 173 – 4 Sulter, Maud, 186 ‘Border Blues’, 168 As a Black Woman , 187 Experimenting with an Amen , 173 ‘Thirteen Stanzas’, 187 No Truce with the Furies , 173 Sussex University, 247 Song at the Year’s Turning , 166 Sutherland, John, 28 The Stones of the Field , 166 Sutherland, Keston, 82 , 92 – 4 ‘The Welsh Hill Country’, 167 ‘Torture Lite’, 94 Thompson, E.P., 246 Swanzy, Henry, 178 Thomson, Derick, 159 Sweetman, David, 7 , 104 Time , 41 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 19 The Times , 33 Symbolists, 34 Times Literary Supplement ( TLS ) , Synge, J.M. 55 , 249 The Playboy of the Western World , 134 Tir Newydd , 165 Tóibín, Colm, 254 ‘Talwrn y Beirdd’, 173 Tomlinson, Charles, 3 , 36 , 60 – 62 , 65 TangleRoots, 191 A Peopled Landscape , 217 Tannahill, Andrew, 151 ‘The Middlebrow Muse’, 3 Taylor, Margaret, 166 ‘Mistlines’, 61 , 62 , 63 Tempest, Kate, 242 – 3 New Collected Poems , 218 Thatcher, Margaret, 87 , 88 Seeing is Believing , 61 Thomas, Dylan, 1 , 16 , 17 – 19 , 25 , 26 – 7 , 39 , ‘Swimming Chenango Lake’, 62 43 , 47 , 54 , 163 , 165 – 6 , 170 , 172 , 244 ‘The Tree’, 218 , 224

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Townsend Warner, Sylvia, 198 Watson, Roderick Treece, Henry, 16 The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, The White Horseman , 16 Scots and English , 150 Tripp, John, 169 Watts, Carol ‘Diesel to Yesterday’, 170 Wrack , 92 Trocchi, Alexander, 75 Waugh, Evelyn, 32 Sigma project, 74 Webb, Harri, 169 Trotter, David Welsh Language Society The Making of the Reader , 6 – 7 , 109 See Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg Turnbull, Gael, 82 Weston, Daniel, 32 – 3 White, Kenneth, 159 Uncertainty Principle The Bird Path , 159 See Heisenberg, Werner The Cold Wind of Dawn , 159 Underdog (journal), 72 Handbook for the Diamond United Kingdom, 5 Country , 159 University of Aberdeen, 253 Whitehead, Peter University of Dundee, 253 Wholly Communion , 75 University of East Anglia (UEA), 241 , Whyte, Christopher, 153 242 , 247 Wicks, Susan, 206 University of Exeter, 247 Wikipedia, 130 University of Hull, 251 Wilkinson, John University of Leeds, 243 , 246 – 7 , 248 , 251 Iphigenia , 92 University of Manchester, 247 , 253 , 254 The Nile , 92 Centre for New Writing, 252 Williams, Charles, 244 University of Nottingham, 251 Williams, Hugo University of Oxford, 244 , 245 , 251 , 254 ‘Death of an Actor’, 105 University of Sheffi eld, 242 , 246 , 251 Williams, Raymond, 229 University of St Andrews, 253 Williams, Rowan, 165 University of Stirling, 253 Williams, Waldo, 165 University of Strathclyde, 253 Williams, William Carlos, 3 , 60 , University of Warwick, 247 , 251 61 , 62 Paterson , 62 , 83 Vallon, Annette, 233 Wills, Clair, 64 Vaughan, Henry, 163 Wilson, Andrew, 68 , 76 Vaughan, Thomas, 163 Wilson, Angus, 247 Vietnam War, 76 Wilson, Rab, 161 Vinkenoog, Simon, 75 , 76 Winters, Yvor, 49 Virago Press, 186 Winterson, Jeanette, 254 Wodehouse, P.G. Wain, John, 1 , 32 Jeeves and Wooster , 32 Wainwright, Jeffrey, 104 , 118 , 240 , 253 Women’s Liberation Movement, 198 Walcott, Derek, 238 Woodward, Guy, 136 Wales, 4 , 163 – 77 , 250 Woolf, Virginia, 203 Wandor, Michelene, 206 The Waves , 49 – 50 ‘Pin Money’, 206 – 7 Wootten, William, 28 , 29 Warner, Val, 234 – 5 Wordsworth, William, 1 , 15 , 201 , 241 ‘Mary Chay’, 234 , 235 ‘Composed Upon Westminster Tooting Idyll , 234 Bridge’, 232 ‘Tooting Idyll’, 234 – 5 Wright, David, 247 – 8 The Warwick Review , 251 Gregory Fellow, 248 Watkins, Vernon, 16 , 163 , 165 ‘Write Out Loud’, 241 ‘Ballad of the Mari Lwyd’, 165 Writing Women , 199 , 248 , 250

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Yeats, W.B., 10 , 11 , 14 , 15 , 22 , 34 , 41 , 47 , The Yellow Nib , 252 135 , 137 – 8 Young, Douglas, 149 ‘Easter 1916’, 139 Yt Communications, 91 ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, 135 – 36 , 138 , 139 Zephaniah, Benjamin, 181 , 188 , 192 ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, Zola, Émile 136 , 138 Rougon-Macquart cycle, 228 The Winding Stair , 138 Zukofsky, Louis ‘Vacillation’, 138 A , 83

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