{"product_id":"living-in-history-poetry-in-britain-1945-1979-9781399519854","title":"Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945-1979","description":"Challenging received ideas about the British Poetry Revival, Luke Roberts presents a new account of experimental poetry and literary activism. Drawing on a wide range of contexts and traditions, \u003ci\u003eLiving in History\u003c\/i\u003e begins by examining the legacies of empire and exile in the work of Kamau Brathwaite, J. H. Prynne, and poets associated with the Communist Party and the African National Congress. It then focuses on the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Denise Riley, Anna Mendelssohn and others, in the development of liberation struggles around gender, race and sexuality across the 1970s. Tracking the ambivalence between poetic ambition and political commitment, and how one sometimes interferes with the other, Luke Roberts troubles the exclusions of 'British Poetry' as a category and tests the claims made on behalf avant-garde and experimental poetics against the historical record. Bringing together both major and neglected authorships and offering extended close readings, fresh archival research and new contextual evidence, \u003ci\u003eLiving in History\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious and exciting intervention in the field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuke Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King's College London. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBarry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry: Seditious Things\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), which was nominated for the University English first book prize. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eELH\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTextual Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He is co-editor, with Sam Ladkin, of the work of Mark Hyatt, including \u003ci\u003eSo Much For Life: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), and the novel \u003ci\u003eLove, Leda\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). He also edited \u003ci\u003eBarry MacSweeney, Desire Lines: Unselected Poems: 1966-2000\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and was co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCertain Prose of the English Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). His books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eHome Radio\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and his poems have been published in \u003ci\u003eChicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLudd Gang\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCambridge Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e and many other little magazines. With Amy Tobin he edits the small press \u003ci\u003eDistance No Object\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50500954882322,"sku":"9781399519854","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_72850985-ffca-4062-83a0-f998a7e80671.jpg?v=1730759459","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/living-in-history-poetry-in-britain-1945-1979-9781399519854","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}