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Ian Gregson is an award-winning poet whose latest book of poems is How We Met (Salt, 2008); Call Centre Love Song (Salt, 2006) was shortlisted for a Forward prize. He has published five books of criticism on contemporary writing. Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement (Macmillan, 1996) applies Bakhtininian theories of the dialogic, and Shklovskian theories of estrangement, to contemporary poetry. The Male Image: Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry (Macmillian, 2002) uses gender theory to talk about the masculinity of poets such as Robert Lowell, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott. Character and Satire in Postwar Fiction (Continuum, 2004) explores the widespread use of caricatural techniques in ...more

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Postmodern Literature

3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Call Centre Love Song (Salt...

3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006
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Not Tonight Neil

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Simon Armitage

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Crocodile Princess

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Character and Satire in Pos...

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The Crocodile Princess

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The Male Image: Representat...

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Irresistible Force

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The New Poetry in Wales

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“Poetry could be a brilliant antidote to some of our current cultural problems...our collective attention deficit.”
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