Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland

by Greg Thomas

Book Overview

This book offers the first in-depth account of the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s to the 1970s. Concrete poetry was a literary and artistic style which reactivated early twentieth-century modernist impulses towards the merging of artistic media, while simultaneously speaking to a gamut of contemporary contexts, from post-1945 reconstruction to cybernetics, mass media and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789620260
• ISBN13: 9781789620269
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"