Introduction

poetry, politics and tradition

Gary Day

1-22

Basil Bunting

Briggflatts

Dennis BROWN

23-32

"Never such innocence again"

the poetry of Philip Larkin

Gary Day

33-47

Poetic subjects

Tony Harrison and Peter Reading

Neil Roberts

48-62

Salvaged from the ruins

ken Smith's constellations

Stan Smith

63-86

Dance of being

the poetry of Peter Redgrove

Neil Roberts

87-102

Seamus Heaney

from revivalism to postmodernism

Alistair Davies

103-117

"Some sweet disorder" — the poetry of subversion

Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin and Medbh Mcguckian

Elmer Andrews

118-142

The Gaelic renaissance

Sorley Maclean and Derick Thomson

Christopher Whyte

143-169

Edwin Morgan

messages and transformations

Roderick Watson

170-192

"Half of my seeing"

the English poetry of Iain Crichton Smith

Colin Milton

193-220

Vernon Watkins and R.S. Thomas

Dennis BROWN

221-236

Anthologies of women's poetry

canon-breakers; canon-makers

Jane Dowson

237-252

Women poets and "women's poetry"

Fleur Adcock, Gillian Clarke and Carol Rumens

Lyn Pykett

253-267

They say, they say, they say

some new voices of the nineties

Michael Faherty

268-279