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Introduction: Situating contemporary poetry (2021)
Book Chapter
Rogers, S. (2021). Introduction: Situating contemporary poetry. In S. Rogers (Ed.), Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (1-8). Modern Humanities Research Association. https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.51.2021.0001

The Yearbook of English Studies for 2021 examines contemporary poetry from Britain and Ireland. Edited by Samuel Rogers, the volume contains fourteen essays exploring a range of poetry from 1980 and the present. Poetry continues to be a dynamic cultu... Read More about Introduction: Situating contemporary poetry.

Wires, mirrors, tricks of the light: Zoë Skoulding and lyric poetry (2021)
Book Chapter
Rogers, S. (2021). Wires, mirrors, tricks of the light: Zoë Skoulding and lyric poetry. In S. Rogers (Ed.), Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (265-286). Modern Humanities Research Association. https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.51.2021.0265

In this discussion, the earlier poetry of Zoë Skoulding is analyzed as a case study for an expanded sense of the contemporary lyric genre. Through a fixation on visual apparatuses including eyes, lenses, binoculars, and mirrors, Skoulding’s The Mirro... Read More about Wires, mirrors, tricks of the light: Zoë Skoulding and lyric poetry.