References

 

Some useful reading (with Bilkent Library call numbers)
 
Studying poetry
 
Furniss, T and Bath, M. Reading Poetry: An Introduction (1996)
(Bilkent PN1111.F86)
 
Herbert, P.N. How Poetry Works: The Elements of English Poetry (2000) (Bilkent PR508.V45 R646)
 
Herbert, W. and Hollis, M (eds.). Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe 2000)
 
Jones, R.T. Studying Poetry: An Introduction (1986) (Bilkent PR502.J78)
 
Kennedy, X. J., An Introduction to Poetry (1994) (Bilkent PN1042.K39 1993)
 
Schakel, P. and Ridl, J. Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997)
 
British Poetry (general)
 
Armitage and Crawford (eds.) The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998)
 
Childs, Peter. The Twentieth Century in Poetry: A Critical Survey (1999)
(Bilkent PR 605 H5 C48) 
 
Day and Docherty (eds.). British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s (1997) (Bilkent PR603.B75)
 
Draper, R. An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (1999)
(Bilkent PR601.D67)
 
Hulse, Kennedy and Morley (eds.). The New Poetry (1993)
 
Longley, Ed (ed.). The Bloodaxe Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry from Britain and Ireland (2000)
 
Longley, E. Poetry and Posterity (2000) (Bilkent PN1136.L66)
 
O’Brien, Sean (ed.). The Firebox- Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945 (1998)
 
Roberts, Neil. A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry (2001) (Bilkent PR601.R5)
 
Sinclair, I (ed.). Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology (1996)
 
Women’s Poetry
 
Adcock, Fleur (ed.). The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women’s Poetry (1987) (Bilkent PR1177.F115)
 
Bertram, Vicki (ed.). Kicking Daffodils: Twentieth-Century Women’s Poetry (1997) (Bilkent PN1091.K53)
 
Mark, Alison. Contemporary Women’s Poetry: Reading/Writing/Practice (2000)
(Bilkent PR605.W6 C66)
 
Irish Poetry
 
Grennan, E. Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century
(1999) (Bilkent PR8771.G74 1999)
 
Welsh Poetry
 
Abse, Dannie. Welsh Retrospective (1997) (Bilkent PR6001.B7W44)
 
Davies,James. A Swansea Anthology (1996) (Bilkent PR8964.S93)
 
Elfyn and Rowland(eds.), The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry (Welsh language poetry in translation) (2003)
 
Scottish Poetry
 
Douglas Dunn (ed.), The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (1993) (Bilkent PR8651.F33)
 
International context 
 
Mark Willhardt, Who’s who in twentieth-century world poetry (2000)
(Bilkent REF/PN1271.W46)
 
Daniel Weissbort, Translating Poetry: the double labyrinth (2002)
(Bilkent PN6101.P543)
 
Daniel Weissbort and Stephen Watts, Mother Tongues: Modern Poetry in Action (2001)
 
Poetry, theory and culture
 
Buchbinder, D. Contemporary Literary Theory and the Reading of Poetry (1991) (Bilkent PN 1031.B918)
 
Crawford, Robert. Identifying Poets: Self and Territory in Twentieth-Century Poetry (1993) (Bilkent PN1271.C73)
 
Ian Gregson, Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement (1996) (Bilkent PR 605.P67 G73)
 
Roberts, Andrew Michael. Poetry and Contemporary Culture: the Question of Value (2002) (Bilkent PN1271.P579)
 
Cathy's poetry library: students can borrow any of these books from me
 
Simon Armitage, Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid (2006)
Carol Ann Duffy, Selected Poems, 1984-2004 (2004)
Peter Finch: 'British Poetry After 1945': (short article: copy with tutor) 
Linda France, The Gentleness of the Very Tall (1994)
Hulse, Kennedy, Morley (eds), The New Poetry (1993)
Sean O'Brien, The Drowned Book (2007)
Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems (1981)
R.S. Thomas, Love Poems (1996)
A. Thwaite, ed., R.S. Thomas (Everyman's Poetry) (1996)
Susan Wicks, The Clever Daughter (1996)
 
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Shira Wolosky, The Art of Poetry (2001)
Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem (2007)