In this ground-breaking new study of the connections between text and place, creative expression and cultural identity, Alice Entwistle demonstrates how some of Wales's finest poets use the poetic text to reflect on the cultural-political...
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In this ground-breaking new study of the connections between text and place, creative expression and cultural identity, Alice Entwistle demonstrates how some of Wales's finest poets use the poetic text to reflect on the cultural-political complexities of writing in, or about, their shared cultural home. Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- On the Border(s): The Interstitial Poetries of the Contact Zone -- 'Not without strangeness': Ruth Bidgood's Unhomely Mid Wales -- Frontier Country: Christine Evans -- 'A kind of authentic lie': Gwyneth Lewis's English-Language Sequences -- Traverses: Gillian Clarke, Christine Evans, Catherine Fisher and Ireland/Wales -- Wales and/or Thereabouts: Sheenagh Pugh, Wendy Mulford and Zoë Skoulding -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- General Index.
