Devolutionary Complexities: Reading Three New Poets

Matthew Jarvis

Devolutionary Complexities: Reading Three New Poets

Department of English and Creative Writing

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the work of three recent arrivals on Wales’s Anglophone poetry scene: Jonathan Edwards (My Family and Other Superheroes, 2014), Dai George (The Claims Office, 2013) and Katherine Stansfield (Playing House, 2014). Drawing in particular on research in the field of political science about attitudes towards Welsh devolution, it argues that an understanding of post-devolution Wales as complex, multiple and even potentially contradictory is crucial to an analysis of Wales’s contemporary Anglophone poetic life. It suggests that, taken together, these three new writers encapsulate a range of subject positions and concerns that cannot easily be mapped onto any single headline trajectory of post-devolution Wales. Rather, this chapter seeks to claim that the relationship
between Wales’s devolutionary direction and Anglophone Welsh poetry remains, as yet, both ambiguous and very difficult to assess.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Devolutionary Readings
Subtitle of host publication	English-Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Peter Lang
Chapter	4
Pages	89-114
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-78874-070-8, 978-1-78874-069-2, 978-1-78874-071-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-0343-1975-1
Publication status	Published - 2017

Publication series

Name	Modern Poetry
Publisher	Peter Lang
Volume	10
ISSN (Print)	1661-2744

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Devolutionary Readings: English-Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales
Jarvis, M. (ed.), 2017, Oxford: Peter Lang. 328 p. (Modern Poetry; vol. 10)
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Introduction: Wales, Devolution, Poetry
Jarvis, M., 30 Oct 2017, Devolutionary Readings: English-Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales. Jarvis, M. (ed.). Oxford: Peter Lang, p. 1-22 22 p. (Modern Poetry; vol. 10).
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Devolutionary Readings: English-Language Poetry and Contemporary Wales

Introduction: Wales, Devolution, Poetry

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