The course book will be: Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, eds., The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry, 1982. This will need to be supplemented by further reading in the poets to be considered. [828.108 PEN]

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• Neil Astley. ed., Tony Harrison, 1991 [828 HAR/T]
  
• Neil Corcoran, English Poetry since 1940, 1993 [828.1 COR]
  
• Neil Corcoran, ed., The Chosen Ground: Essays in the contemporary poetry of Northern Ireland, Bridgend, 1992 [828.199416 CHO]
  
• Anthony Easthope and John O.Thompson, eds., Contemporary Poetry Meets Modern Theory, 1991 [809.1 CON]
  
• Ian Gregson, Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and estrangement, 1996 [809.104 GRE]
  
• Ian Hamilton, ed., The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, 1994 [828.103 OXF]
  
• Robert Hampson and Peter Barry, eds., New British Poetries: The scope of the possible, 1993 [828.1 NEW]
  
• Tim Kendall, Paul Muldoon, Bridgend, 1996 [828 MUL/K]
  
• Michael Kenneally, ed., Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature, Gerrards Cross, 1995 [828.199415 POE]
  
• David Kennedy, New Relations: The refashioning of British poetry, Bridgend, 1996 [828.1 KEN]
  
• Richard Kirkland, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland since 1965: Moments of danger, 1996 [828.99416 KIR]
  
• N H Reeve and Richard Kerridge, Nearly Too Much: The poetry of J H Prynne, Liverpool, 1995 [828 PRY/R]
  
• Alan Robinson, Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry, 1982 [Univ. Lib.] Chapters on Craig Raine and Tom Paulin, and others.
  
• Anthony Thwaite, Poetry Today: A critical guide to British poetry 1960-84, 1985 [828.1 THW]
  
• David Trotter, The Making of the Reader: Language and subjectivity in modern American, English and Irish poetry, 1984 [820.1 TRO]
  
• Clair Wills, Improprieties: Politics and sexuality in Northern Irish poetry, 1993 [828.199416 WIL]