Grants and fellowships are increasingly essential to an academic career, and competition
over federal and foundation funding is fiercer than ever. Yet there has hitherto been little …

Focusing on a selection of poems written during Allen Ginsberg's visits to Britain between
1958 and 1979, an attempt is made to show how Ginsberg's British poetry might productively …

This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who
worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics …

Among the contributors to Donald Allen's legendary The New American Poetry anthology,
we find at least a dozen queer poets, several of whom were directly involved in the struggle …

In this chapter, the author has suggested a number of themes and qualities which might
bring various poets, willingly or otherwise, into a British Beat canon. In the conclusion he …

The study begins with an account of Blake, as voiced by Allen Ginsberg, taking part in a key
Sixties anti-war protest, and goes on to examine some theoretical aspects of Blake's …

Abstract A Savage Night: The Birth of Mahcuilli Calli Xochiquiahuitl is a manuscript of
narrative poems that relate to one another in the same manner chapters do in a novel …

The Velvet Underground: What Goes On 32 in both Manhattan's Lower East Side and
London's Notting Hill area, along with other connected countercultural sites. This clustering …

This article locates the origins of contemporary understandings of world poetry in a set of
institutions and poetic practices that developed in the 1960s, as evinced by a series of …

In Peter Whitehead's documentary film about the event, Wholly Communion, the Austrian
writer bears a resemblance more to a bookkeeper than an avant-garde poet. Jandl …