Striking legacies: place attachment and the post-industrial landscape in the poetry of Tony Harrison, Ian Parks & Helen Mort, a critical and creative study

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Goacher, TSK, 2022. Striking legacies: place attachment and the post-industrial landscape in the poetry of Tony Harrison, Ian Parks & Helen Mort, a critical and creative study. PhD, Nottingham Trent University.

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This critical and creative thesis explores the representation of the post-industrial landscape in contemporary poetry. The critical element of this thesis considers the works of Tony Harrison, Ian Parks, and Helen Mort, three contemporary poets from industrial and post-industrial towns and cities in the north of England and interrogates the poet-place relationship in the context of the deindustrialised North of England. The poet-place relationship is considered from a sociological perspective and includes explorations of representations of social class and mobility, contemporary and historic British politics, protest and belonging. This thesis has been developed via a combination of close reading and textual analysis and author interview where possible, in conjunction with consideration of author biography. This is accompanied by a collection of original poetry developed in conversation with this research, and in the context of another industrial and post-industrial town in the northern half of England, Ilkeston, the author’s hometown.

Item Type:	Thesis
Creators:	Goacher, T.S.K.
Date:	September 2022
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Divisions:	Schools > School of Arts and Humanities
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	05 May 2023 09:47
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 09:47
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48882