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Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the international poetry incarnation and performance poetry

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Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the international poetry incarnation and performance poetry. / Gräbner, Cornelia.
The Cambridge companion to British poetry since 1945. ed. / Edward Larissy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. (Cambridge Companions to Literature).

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Gräbner, C 2015, Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the international poetry incarnation and performance poetry. in E Larissy (ed.), The Cambridge companion to British poetry since 1945. Cambridge Companions to Literature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

APA

Gräbner, C. (2015). Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the international poetry incarnation and performance poetry. In E. Larissy (Ed.), The Cambridge companion to British poetry since 1945 (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge University Press.

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Gräbner C. Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the international poetry incarnation and performance poetry. In Larissy E, editor, The Cambridge companion to British poetry since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015. (Cambridge Companions to Literature).

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Gräbner, Cornelia. / Poetry and performance : the Mersey poets, the international poetry incarnation and performance poetry. The Cambridge companion to British poetry since 1945. editor / Edward Larissy. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. (Cambridge Companions to Literature).

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