A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

* An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century
* Introduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion

* Takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together  competing tendencies and positions
* Written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States
* Includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events