Poetry and Work

Chapter 1 Introduction: Working Late

Chapter 2 Show Your Workings: Other Forms of Labour in Recent Poetry

Chapter 3 Bird-Song by Everyone, for Everyone: Poetry, Work, and Play in J. H. Prynne’s Prose

Chapter 4 “The Stitching of Her Wake”: The Collaboration of Pamela Campion and Ian Hamilton Finlay

Chapter 5 Basil Bunting and the Work of Poetry

Chapter 6 Art Takes All My Time: Work in the Poetry and Prison Writing of Anna Mendelssohn

Chapter 7 Queer Labour in Boston: The Work of John Wieners, Gay Liberation and Fag Rag

Chapter 8 Without the Text at Hand: Postcolonial Writing and the Work of Memorisation

Chapter 9 Body Burdens: The Materiality of Work in Rita Wong’s Forage

Chapter 10 “Because We Love Wrong”: Citizenship and Labour in Alena Hairston’s The Logan Topographies

Chapter 12 Distributed and Entangled Posture in Catherine Wagner’s My New Job and Nervous Device

Chapter 13 The Exploit: Affective Labor and Poetry at the University

Chapter 14 Floating On—If Not Up—Ward

Chapter 15 Extract from the Poetic Labor Project