Includes bibliographical references and index.

"To get the news from poems": poetry as genre / Jahan Ramazani -- What was New Formalism? / David Caplan -- Meter / Peter L. Groves -- The stanza: echo chambers / Debra Fried -- Trying to praise the mutilated world: the contemporary American ode / Ann Keniston -- English elegies / Neil Roberts -- The self-elegy: narcissistic nostalgia or proleptic postmortem? / Eve C. Sorum -- Free verse and formal: the English ghazal / Lisa Sewell -- On "the beat inevitable": the ballad / Romana Huk -- Oddity or tour de force? The sestina / Nicole Ollier -- The rondeau: stil doing the rounds / Maria Johnston -- Weaving close turns and counter turns: the villanelle / Karen Jackson Ford -- Looping the loop: Terza rima / George Szirtes -- Ottava rima: quietly facetious upon everything / Michael Hinds -- "Named airs": American sonnets (Stevens to Bidart) / Meg Tyler -- African American sonnets: voicing justice and personal dignity / Jeff Westover -- The liberties of blank verse / Patrick Jackson -- Arcs of movement: the heroic couplet / David Wheatley -- In a sea of indeterminacy: fourteen ways of looking at Haiku / Peter Harris -- On the pantoum, and the pantunite element in poetry / Geoff Ward -- "Gists and piths": the free-verse revolution in contemporary American poetry / Marie-Christine Lemardeley -- The emergent prose poem / Andy Brown -- Concrete/visual poetry / Fiona McMahon -- Poems that count: procedural poetry / Hélène Aji -- Modes of found poetry / Lacy Rumsey -- "Horny morning mood": the Aubade and Alba / Kit Fryatt -- Nox consilium and the dark night of the soul: the nocturne / Erik Martiny -- Heaney, Virgil, and contemporary Katabasis / Rachel Falconer -- The aisling / Bernard O'Donoghue -- The printed voice / Yann Tholoniat -- Rewriting the people's newspaper: Trinidadian calypso after 1956 / John Thieme -- Tragicomic mode in modern American poetry: "Awful but cheerful" / Bonnie Costello -- Parnassus in pillory: satirical verse / Todd Nathan Thompson -- Poetry and its occasions: "Undoing the folded lie" / Stephen Wilson -- On verse letters / Philip Coleman -- "Containing history": epic poetry and revisions of the genre / Alex Runchman -- T.S. Eliot and the short long poem / Jennifer Clarvoe -- Making war poetry contemporary / Rainer Emig -- Bestiary USA: the modern American bestiary poem / Jo Gill -- "From Arcadia to Bunyah": mutation and diversity in the pastoral mode / Karina Williamson -- Another green world: contemporary garden poetry / Mark Scroggins -- Scenic, or topographical, poetry / Stephen Burt -- Ekphrastic poetry: in and out of the museum / Jonathan Ellis.

"A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations. Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to their most recent renderings The only full-length critical collection to deal with modern adaptations of poetic genres Contributors include Bernard O'Donoghue, Stephen Burt, Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry and poetics"-- Provided by publisher.

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