San Antonio College Library

This book discusses the work of a number of prominent contemporary poets writing in English. It argues that increasingly English as a poetic discourse has come under pressure from the hitherto marginalized forms of the language. -- book jacket.

This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain, from 1900 to the present, and from Britain and America to New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Trinidad, Zimbabwe - anywhere, in fact, where poets write in English. It charts the shift from 'poetry' to 'poetries' - from primarily British and American traditions...