The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these poets' connections with their Modernist predecessors.

This collection on contemporary British poetry focuses on modernism's legacy and experimentation. Enriched by a helpful list of 99 poets and an extensive bibliography, this collection introduces US readers to contemporary British poets otherwise known only in avant poetry circles. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals general readers. (B. Wallenstein, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)

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Vincent Broqua, University of Paris VIII-Vincennes-Saint Denis, France Allen Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Sara Greaves, Aix-Marseille Université, France Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Romana Huk, University of Notre Dame, USA Xavier Kalck, Paris-Sorbonne University, France Peter Middleton, University of Southampton, UK Drew Milne, University of Cambridge, UK Will Montgomery, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Simon Perril, De Montfort University, UK Luke Roberts, Independent Scholar, UK Lacy Rumsey, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Samuel Solomon, University of Sussex, UK

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Introduction; David Nowell Smith and Abigail Lang PART I: HISTORIES SINCE MODERNISM 1. Warring Clans, Podsolized Ground: Language in Contemporary UK Poetry; Peter Middleton 2. Skipping Across the Pond: Interaction between American and British Poetries, 1964-1970; Allen Fisher and Robert Hampson 3. New British Schools; Romana Huk PART II: THE MODERNIST LEGACY 4. "Who am I to say? How little": Anthony Barnett's; Xavier Kalck 5. "Kinked up like it wants to bark": Contemporary British Poetry at the Tomb of the Poète Maudit; Simon Perril 6. The Atypicality of Jeff Hilson: Metrical Language and Modernist Pleasure; Lacy Rumsey 7. Balsam Flex: Cassette Culture and Poetry; Will Montgomery 8. Caroline Bergvall's Poetics of the Infrathin; Vincent Broqua PART III: POETICAL AND POLITICAL COMMITMENTS 9. Transcultural Hybridity and Modernist Legacies: Observations on Late Twentieth and Early Twenty First Century British Poetry; Sara Greaves 10. Langwij a thi guhtr; David Nowell Smith 11. Strikers with Poems; Luke Roberts 12. Forms of Reproduction in Wendy Mulford's Early Work; Samuel Solomon 13. "Ill read ill said": Faultlines in Contemporary Poetics as Ideology; Drew Milne Further Reading: 99 poets