Contemporary British Poetry and the Long 1980s:
From Deregulation to Self-Regulation
Numéro 9 - 2025

- Bastien Goursaud et Claire Hélie
Introduction - Bastien Goursaud, Claire Hélie et Fiona Sampson
Interview with Fiona Sampson - Eva Zettelmann
The Poetry Promise: Contemporary British Poetry and Its Cultural Capital - Adriano Elia
A Portable Paradise: Practising Empathy with Roger Robinson’s Poetry - John Sannaee
A Return to the Lyric in Contemporary British Poetry - Michael Hinds
“Piss so strong/It smells like decent bacon”: The Gross Decencies of Sleaford Mods - Iain Halliday
Song Lyrics as Poetry from the 1980s to the Present Day – Regulation and Deregulation - Laure-Hélène Anthony-Gerroldt
Document sans “The Witch Thinks about What It Would Be Like”: The Figure of the Witch as a Contemporary Poetic Emblem - Julie Irigaray
Accessibility in the Poetry World: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Transformed the Contemporary British Poetry Scene - Sarah Bouttier
Fluid poetics in Venus as a Bear (2018) by Vahni Capildeo