The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry

1. Introduction: Form, Forms, and Forming
Robert Sheppard

2. Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetic Artifice and Naturalization in Theory and Practice
Robert Sheppard

3. Convention and Constraint: Form in the Innovative Sonnet Sequence
Robert Sheppard

4. Translation as Transformation: Tim Atkins’ and Peter Hughes’ Petrarch
Robert Sheppard

5. Meddling the Medieval: Caroline Bergvall and Erín Moure
Robert Sheppard

6. Translation as Occupation: Simon Perril and Sean Bonney
Robert Sheppard

7. Rosmarie Waldrop: Poetics, Wild Forms, and Palimpsest Prose
Robert Sheppard

8. The Trace of Poetry and the Non-Poetic: Conceptual Writing and Appropriation in Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, and John Seed
Robert Sheppard

9. Stefan Themerson: Iconopoeia and Thought-Experiments in the Theater of Semantic Poetry
Robert Sheppard

10. The Making of the Book: Bill Griffiths and Allen Fisher
Robert Sheppard

11. Geraldine Monk’s Poetics and Performance: Catching Form in the Act
Robert Sheppard

12. Form and the Antagonisms of Reality: Barry MacSweeney’s Sin Signs
Robert Sheppard

Nyckelord: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Contemporary Literature, British and Irish Literature, North American Literature