This book provides an overview of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century.

Eric Falci is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966¿2010 (Cambridge, 2012). He has also published a number of essays on modern British and Irish poetry.

1. The movement and its discontents; 2. Decolonizing poetry; 3. Local modernism; 4. Late modernism; 5. The North; 6. New narratives; 7. Platforms and performances.