In this 2000 collection, an international team of contributors examine relationships between modernist poetry and place.

Preface; Introduction: locating modernisms: an overview Alex Davis and Lee Jenkins; 1. MacDiarmid in Montrose Robert Crawford; 2. Bunting and Welsh Richard Caddel; 3. Antithesis of place in the poetry and life of David Jones Thomas Dilworth; 4. 'Shut in a yower of words': Dylan Thomas' Modernism John Goodby and Christopher Wigginton; 5. 'Literally, for this': metonymies of national identity in Edward Thomas, Yeats and Auden Stan Smith; 6. Reactions to their Burg: Irish Modernist poets of the 1930s Alex Davis; 7. Pound's places Peter Nicholls; 8. Wallace Stevens and America Lee Jenkins; 9. Locating the Lyric: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and World War II Fiona Green; 10. 'In the published city': the New York School of Poets Geoff Ward; 11. Modernism deferred: Langston Hughes, Harlem and Jazz Montage Peter Brooker; Index.