1960-2015 : a brief overview of the verse / Some institutions of the British and Irish (sub)fields of poetry : little magazines, publishers, prizes, and poetry in translation / Anthologies : distortions and corrections, poetries, and voices / Minding the trench : the reception of British and Irish poetry in America, 1960-2015 / Readers : who reads modern poetry? / Manifestos and poetics/poets on writing / The genres of contemporary British and Irish poetry / The elegy / The sonnet / Free verse and open form / Satire / The traditional short lyric poem in Britain and Ireland, 1960-2010 / (Post)modern lyric poetry / The long poem after pound / Generations / The movement / The Liverpool poets / The British Poetry Revival / Poets Of Ulster / Martians : towards a poetics of wonder / Linguistically innovative poetry in the 1980s and 1990s / Concrete and performance poetry / Performances of technology as compositional practice in British and Irish contemporary poetry / "Here to stay" : Black British poetry and the post-WWII United Kingdom / Anglo-Jewish poetry / Gay and lesbian poetry / Women poets in the British Isles / Irish women poets / Religious poetry, 1960-2015 / Love poetry / Political poetry / Radical landscape poetry in Scotland / Coincidentia oppositorum : myth in contemporary poetry / History and poetry / British and Irish poets abroad/in exile / John Agard / Eavan Boland / Paul Durcan / James Fenton / Bill Griffiths / Excluding visions of life in poems by Thom Gunn / "Now put it together" : Lee Harwood and the gentle art of collage / Listening to words and silence : the poetry of Elizabeth Jennings / "Forever in excess" : Barry Macsweeney, consumerism, and popular culture / When understanding breaks in waves : voices and messages in Edwin Morgan's poetry / Grace Nichols / F.T. Prince / Kathleen Raine / "Everything except justice is an impertinence" : the poetry of Peter Riley / Anne Stevenson / Paula Meehan : vocal cartographies : public and private.