Brand New Oldies: Recent English Narrative Verse
Brand New Oldies: Recent English Narrative Verse
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Authors
Malcolm, David
Monograph
Monograph (alternative title)
Date
2023-09
Publisher
Journal title
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
Issue
3
Volume
32
Pages
Pages
139-167
ISSN
0860-5734
ISSN of series
Access date
2023-09-01
Abstract PL
Abstract EN
A substantial amount of narrative verse has been written and published in England in the first two decades of the 21st century. Several writers, including Bernardine Evaristo, Ros Barber, Patience Agbabi, and Moniza Alvi, have written successful and well-received longer narrative poems. These poems fall into various categories: novel in poems, verse novel, and narrative collection. Five features of these texts are distinguished: the reworking of traditional and popular story materials; the predominant deployment of traditional narrative and narrational technique; accessible verse technique; an interest in past subjects and an attempt to render them available to a contemporary readership; and an adoption of non-narrative and lyric modes.
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Keywords PL
Keywords EN
21st-century English poetry
narrative verse
novel in poems
verse novel.
narrative verse
novel in poems
verse novel.