Introduction: Negotiating the era of decolonization -- Provincializing the Greenwich Meridian -- Interchapter: Mbari publications and the CIA -- Editing the commonwealth -- Interchapter: Derek Walcott and the London Magazine -- Fashioning the modern African poet -- Interchapter: James Simmons's Nigeria and the honest Ulsterman -- Publishing the troubles -- Conclusion: the haunting of Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill.
Summary:
The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.
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