Wolfgang Görtschacher is Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Salzburg, where he has taught literary criticism and translation studies since the early 1990s. He has published widely on British poetry magazines, contemporary British and Irish literature, and translation studies. His translations of German poetry into English and English poetry into German have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is the owner-director of the small press Poetry Salzburg, editor of the little magazine Poetry Salzburg Review, co-editor of the academic journal Moderne Sprachen, and president of AAUTE (Austrian Association of University Teachers of English).
David Malcolm is a professor of English at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He previously taught for twenty-eight years at the University of Gdansk. He has published extensively on British and Irish fiction and poetry. His translations of Polish and German literature have been published in Europe, the UK, and the USA. He is co-organizer of the Between.Pomiedzy Festival of Literature and Theatre which has been held annually in Sopot, Poland, since 2010.

Contributors' Notes
Preface
Section 1 Introduction - 1960-2015: A Brief Overview of the Verse
Wolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm
Section 2 Contexts, Forms, Topics, and Movements
a. Institutions, Histories, Receptions
1. Some Institutions of the British and Irish (Sub)Fields of Poetry: Little Magazines, Publishers, Prizes, and Poetry in Translation
Wolfgang Görtschacher
2. Anthologies: Distortions and Corrections, Poetries, and Voices
David Kennedy
3. Minding the Trench: The Reception of British and Irish Poetry in America, 1960-2015
Daniel Bourne
4. Readers: Who Reads Modern Poetry?
Juha Virtanen
b. Genre, Kind, Technique
1. Manifestos and Poetics/Poets on Writing
Daniel Weston
2. The Genres of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Gareth Farmer
3. The Elegy
Stephen Regan
4. The Sonnet
David Fuller
5. Free Verse and Open Form
Lacy Rumsey
6. Satire
David Wheatley
7. The Traditional Short Lyric Poem in Britain and Ireland, 1960-2010
Tim Liardet and Jennifer Militello
8. (Post)Modern Lyric Poetry
Alex Perstell
9. The Long Poem after Pound
Will May
c. Groupings, Themes
1. Generations
Robert Hampson
2. The Movement
David Malcolm
3. The Liverpool Poets
Ludmila Gruszewska Blaim
4. The British Poetry Revival
Robert Sheppard
5. Poets of Ulster
Martin Ryle
6. Martians: Towards a Poetics of Wonder
Malgorzata Grzegorzewska
7. Linguistically Innovative Poetry in the 1980s and 1990s
Scott Thurston
8. Concrete and Performance Poetry
Jerzy Jarniewicz
9. Performances of Technology as Compositional Practice in British and Irish Contemporary Poetry
John Sparrow
10. "Here to Stay": Black British Poetry and the post-WWII United Kingdom
Bartosz Wójcik
11. Anglo-Jewish Poetry
David Malcolm
12. Gay and Lesbian Poetry
Prudence Chamberlain
13. Women Poets in the British Isles
Marc Porée
14. Irish Women Poets
Monika Szuba
15. Religious Poetry, 1960-2015
Hugh Dunkerley
16. Love Poetry
Eleanor Spencer
17. Political Poetry
Ian Davidson and Jo Lindsay Walton
18. Radical Landscape Poetry in Scotland
Alan Riach
19. Coincidentia Oppositorum: Myth in Contemporary Poetry
Erik Martiny
d. The Past and Other Countries
1. History and Poetry
Jerzy Jarniewicz
2. British and Irish Poets Abroad/in Exile
Glyn Pursglove
Section 3 Poets and Poems: Canon, Off-Canon, Non-Canon
3.1 John Agard - Ralf Hertel
3.2 Eavan Boland - Peter Hühn
3.3 Paul Durcan - Jessika Köhler
3.4 James Fenton - David Malcolm
3.5 Bill Griffiths - Ian Davidson
3.6 Excluding Visions of Life in Poems by Thom Gunn - Tomasz Wisniewski
3. 7 "Now Put It Together": Lee Harwood and the Gentle Art of Collage - Robert Sheppard
3.8 Listening to Words and Silence: The Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings - Jean Ward
3.9 "Forever in excess": Barry MacSweeney, Consumerism, and Popular Culture - Paul Batchelor
3.10 When Understanding Breaks in Waves: Voices and Messages in Edwin Morgan's Poetry - Monika Kocot
3.11 Grace Nichols - Pilar Sánchez Calle
3.12 F. T. Prince - Will May
3.13 Kathleen Raine - Glyn Pursglove
3.14 "Everything except justice is an impertinence": The Poetry of Peter Riley - Peter Hughes
3.15 Anne Stevenson - Eleanor Spencer
3.16 Paula Meehan: Vocal Cartographies: Public and Private - Wolfgang Görtschacher