Pointing to East and West: British Cold War Poetry

This chapter examines British post-war poetry, specifically the courting of America and the engagement with Eastern European poets, aiming to map the co-ordinates of the British poetry of the Cold War, and showing the ways the Cold War was withstood and repeatedly lived over and out at the level of the imagination.

This chapter examines British post-war poetry, specifically the courting of America and the engagement with Eastern European poets, aiming to map the co-ordinates of the British poetry of the Cold War, and showing the ways the Cold War was withstood and repeatedly lived over and out at the level of the imagination.