Cambride Introduction To Contemporary British Poetry

Cambridge Introductions to Literature

by David Wheatley

Offering readers a detailed introduction to the rich variety of British poetry that has emerged since the Second World War, this book combines an overview of post-war literary history with detailed studies of the major poets of the period. The primary focus throughout is on studies of the most important poems of the time, and their dynamic and central contributions to twentieth-century poetry in English.

Paperback

First published June 30, 2011

About the author

David Wheatley (born 1970) is an Irish poet and critic. He was born in Dublin and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus. Wheatley is the author of four volumes of poetry with Gallery Press, as well as several chapbooks. He has also edited the work of James Clarence Mangan, and features in the Bloodaxe anthology The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2005), and the Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol. 1 (Wake Forest UP, 2005).

He teaches at the University of Aberdeen, having previously taught at Hull. He has been shortlisted twice for the Poetry Now Award (2007, 2018), and was awarded The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, in 2008.

He lives in Kemnay in Aberdeenshire.