2 Words on Film: Collaborative Work between Poets and Film-

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction
5. I Contemporary Poetry and the Question of Value 1
6. II Media, Poets and Politics 10
7. 1 ‘Vocable Scriptsigns’: Differential Poetics in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Fidget and John Kinsella’s Kangaroo Virus 21
8. 2 Words on Film: Collaborative Work between Poets and Film- 45
9. 3 ‘The Appreciation of Real Worth’: Poetry, Radio and the Valued Reader 69
10. 4 Contemporary Poetry and Academia: The Instance of Informationism 85
11. 5 The Rhetoric of Value in Recent British Poetry Anthologies 101
12. 6 Recent American Poetry Anthologies and the Idea of the ‘Mainstream’ 123
13. 7 The Progress of the Avant-Garde: Reading/Writing Race and Culture According to Universal Systems of Value 141
14. 8 The Sign of Democracy and the Terms of Poetry 165
15. 9 ‘Where is the Nation You Promised?’: American Voice in Modern Scottish and Irish Poetr 185
16. 10 Contemporary Poetry and the Great War 209
17. Notes on Contributors 227
18. Index 229