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- Title
Brand New Oldies: Recent English Narrative Verse.
- Authors
Malcolm, David
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; NOVELS in verse; NARRATIVE poetry; ENGLISH poetry; NARRATION; POETRY (Literary form); TWENTY-first century; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 3, p139
- ISSN
0860-5734
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.7311/0860-5734.32.3.09