Holocaust Poetry

The first critical study of post-Holocaust poetry in Britain Draws on a new critical vocabulary and concept of 'awkward poetics' to discuss the poets' writingPresents an original reading of Sylvia Plath's 'camp poetics'.One of the first books to use material from the Ted Hughes archives at Emory University (Atlanta) and the first book to use Tony Harrison's workbooks for Prometheus . Under the umbrella term 'Holocaust poetry', this book argues that distinctions need to be made between the writin