Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry

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The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the latest work of Seamus Heaney and of younger poets including Michael Hofmann and James Fenton, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock, Douglas Dunn, Geoffrey Hill, Tom Paulin and Anne Stevenson.