Poetry and Work: Work in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry

1.        Jo Lindsay Walton and Ed Luker, Introduction: Working Late

I. Essays

2.        Peter Middleton, Show Your Workings: Other Forms of Labour in Recent Poetry

3.        Lisa Jeschke, Bird-Song by Everyone, for Everyone: Poetry, Work and Play in J.H. Prynne's Prose

4.        Lila Matsumoto, "The stitching of her wake": The Collaboration of Pamela Campion and Ian Hamilton Finlay

5.        Annabel Haynes, Basil Bunting and the Work of Poetry

6.        Eleanor Careless, 'Voluntary (hard) labour': Work in the poetry and prison correspondence of Anna Mendelssohn

7.        Nat Raha, Queer Labour in Boston: The work of John Wieners, Gay Liberation and Fag Rag

8.        Aimée Lê, Without the Text at Hand: Postcolonial Writing and the Work of Memorisation

9.        Samantha Walton, Body Burdens: The Materiality of Work in Rita Wong's forage

10.   Lytton Smith, "Because We Love Wrong": Citizenship and Labour in Alena Hairston's The Logan Topographies       

11.   Jose-Luis Moctezuma, "What Gives Pause or Impetus": The Double Bind of Labor in Rodrigo Toscano's Poetics          

II. Reflections

13.   Catherine Wagner, The Exploit: Affective Labor and Poetry at the University

14.   Tyrone Williams, Floating On-if not Up-ward

15.   Amber DiPietra, Extract from The Poetic Labor Project