Discussing the work of more than sixty poets from the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, from Sujata Bhatt to M. Philip Nourbese and from John Ashbery to Eliot Weinberger, Nerys Williams guides students through the key ideas and movements in the study of poetry today. With reference to original manifestoes, essays and web-based experiments, she engages with the full vitality of the contemporary poetry scene and discusses a range of topics, from performance to politics, lyric expression to ecopoetics, and multilingual poetries to electronic writing.