Brand New Oldies: Recent English Narrative Verse

Brand New Oldies: Recent English Narrative Verse

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A substantial amount of narrative verse has been written and published in England in the first two decades of the 21st century.Several writers, including Bernardine Evaristo, Ros Barber, Patience Agbabi, Dresses and Moniza Alvi, have written successful and well-received longer narrative poems.These poems fall into various categories: novel in poems, verse novel, and narrative collection.Five features of these texts are distinguished: the reworking of traditional and popular story materials; the predominant deployment of traditional narrative and BACKPACKS narrational technique; accessible verse technique; an interest in past subjects and an attempt to render them available to a contemporary readership; and an adoption of non-narrative and lyric modes.