Table of Contents
Introduction
'Wanna yoo scruff': Class Politics: Tom Leonard, Tony Harrison, Don Paterson
'My tongue is full of old ideas': Race and Ethnicity: Benjamin Zephaniah, Jackie Kay, Moniza Alvi
Gender, Sex and Embodiment: Simon Armitage, Grace Nichols, Carol Ann Duffy
'Widdershins round the kirk-yaird': Gender, Sexuality and Nation: Eavan Boland, Kathleen Jamie, Gillian Clarke, David Kinloch
'A fusillade of question marks': Poetry and the Troubles in Northern Ireland: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley; Ciaran Carson
'A rustle of echoes': Self, Subjectivity and Agency: David Dabydeen, Paul Muldoon, Denise Riley
The Tribes of Poetry: Tom Raworth, Geraldine Monk, Catherine Walsh, Peter Reading, Patience Agbabi
Select Bibliography
Index.
