Veronica Forrest-Thomson

1. Introduction: Poet on the Periphery
Gareth Farmer

2. The Reluctant Radical: Identi-Kit and Uncollected Early Poems
Gareth Farmer

3. Cambridge, Verbal Hiccups and Iambics: Twelve Academic Questions and Language-Games

Gareth Farmer

4. Poetic Artifice and the Defence of Form
Gareth Farmer

5. Simplicity and Complexity in the Quest for Style
Gareth Farmer

6. Control and Excess in the Quest for ‘Writing Straight’
Gareth Farmer

7. Coda: The Risks of ‘Freedom, Truth and Skill’
Gareth Farmer

Nyckelord: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, British and Irish Literature