British poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s Book

	Acknowledgements
	Notes on the Contributors
1	Introduction: Poetry, Politics and Tradition	1
2	Basil Bunting: Briggflatts	23
3	'Never Such Innocence Again': the Poetry of Philip Larkin	33
4	Poetic Subjects: Tony Harrison and Peter Reading	48
5	Salvaged from the Ruins: Ken Smith's Constellations	63
6	Dance of Being: the Poetry of Peter Redgrove	87
7	Seamus Heaney: From Revivalism to Postmodernism	103
8	'Some Sweet Disorder' - the Poetry of Subversion: Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian	118
9	The Gaelic Renaissance: Sorley MacLean and Derick Thomson	143
10	Edwin Morgan: Messages and Transformations	170
11	'Half of My Seeing': the English Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith	193
12	Vernon Watkins and R.S. Thomas	221
13	Anthologies of Women's Poetry: Canon-Breakers; Canon-Makers	237
14	Women Poets and 'Women's Poetry': Fleur Adcock, Gillian Clarke and Carol Rumens	253
15	They Say, They Say, They Say: Some New Voices of the Nineties	268
	Index	280