Chapter 4 Driven Out of the Town: Homosexuality and The British Poetry Revival

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction: Living in History 1
5. Part I
6. Chapter 1 Possessing the Landscape: Kamau Brathwaite in England, 1950–1955 15
7. Chapter 2 Lovely, Flaring Destruction: J. H. Prynne, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn 43
8. Chapter 3 The Avant-Garde of Their Own People: Poetry and Exile, 1959–1975 75
9. Part II
10. Chapter 4 Driven Out of the Town: Homosexuality and The British Poetry Revival 105
11. Chapter 5 Living in Feminism: Denise Riley and Wendy Mulford 135
12. Chapter 6 Yout Rebels: Refusal and Self-Defence, 1970–1979 164
13. Chapter 7 Grave Police Music: Anti-Carceral Poetics 192
14. Chapter 8 Fear of Retribution: Anna Mendelssohn 217
15. Coda: The Kind of Poetry I Want 239
16. Select Bibliography 248
17. Index 263