British prose poetry: the poems without lines

A collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem's unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity.

The essays cover the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries exploring why this form is particularly suited to the modern age and yet can still be problematic for publishers, booksellers and scholars.

Refreshing perspectives are given on the Romantics, Modernists and Post-Modernists, among them Woolf, Beckett and Eliot as well as more recent poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Over and Vahni Capildeo.