Poetry

Peter Sloane, University of Lincoln, UK Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics explores some of the more radical thematic and formal aspects of the writing of this most distinctive of novelists. In readings of his exploration of empathy and the ethics of reading the posthuman, post-WWII politics and anti-Americanism, the deconstruction of the possibility of ‘history’, and the Kafka-esque psychogeographies of his fictional spaces, Peter Sloane places Ishiguro in the context of a late modernist aesthetic, one that is informed by the intervening rise and fall of the postmodern.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 192 pages PB 9781501377914 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501347993 ePub 9781501348006 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501348013 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Letters and Lives of the Tennyson Women

Marion Sherwood, Member of the Tennyson Society Executive Committee & Rosalind Boyce, Honorary Secretary of the Tennyson Society Publications Board Contradicting perceptions of women as mere footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines the influence of his strong-minded female forebears on the young poet, revealing that the women in Tennyson’s family circle were prolific and engaging correspondents. Focusing on the letters and lives of four women – their letters, preserved in archives in Lincoln and for the most part unpublished, cast a unique light on the Tennyson family’s interrelationships and the times in which they lived.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781350168244 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350168268 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350168251 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic

Irish Children’s Literature and the Poetics of Memory

Rebecca Long, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Focusing on mythological narratives that influence Irish children’s literature, this book examines the connections between landscape, time and identity, positing that myth and the language of myth offer the opportunity to engage with Ireland’s culture and heritage. Examining texts published between 1892 (when there was an escalation of the cultural pursuit of Irish independence) and 2016 (which marked the centenary of the Easter 1916 rebellion against English rule), it draws on work from a variety of writers such as W. B. Yeats and lesser-known writers like Una Kelly to demonstrate the reciprocity that exists between imagination, memory, and childhood experiences.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781350190764 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350167254 ePub 9781350167278 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350167261 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry

Edited by Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA & Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside, USA Including new interviews with major contemporary poets such as Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein and Claudia Rankine, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21stcentury America.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 528 pages HB 9781350062504 • £150.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350062511 • £135.00 / $186.85 ePdf 9781350062528 • £135.00 / $186.85 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Language at the Boundaries

Philosophy, Literature, and the Poetics of Culture

Peter Carravetta, Stony Brook University, USA Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the Boundaries outlines spaces where poetry and poetics emerge in migration, translation, world literature, canon formation and the history of science and technology. Peter Carravetta consolidates historical epistemological positions that have accrued over the last several decades and unpacks differences in those positions – juxtaposing Vico with Heidegger and applying the approaches of translation studies, decolonization, indigeneity, critical race theory and gender studies, among others. What emerges is a defense and theory of poetics in the contemporary world, engaging the topic in a dialectic mode and seeking grounds of agreement.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 216 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781501371882 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501363658 ePub 9781501363665 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501363672 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic