This book draws out connections between ideas of space in cultural and social theory and developments in contemporary poetry. Studying the works of poets from the UK and USA we explore relationships between the texts, ideas of globalization and issues of nationality, identity, language and geography.

IAN DAVIDSON is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK. His critical work has appeared in a number of reviews and journals and his most recent collection of poetry is As if Only (2006).