Download or read book Global Anglophone Poetry written by Omaar Hena and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry's relevancy as a tool for social and political change continues to be overlooked in a global context. Looking to writers as diverse as Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, and Daljit Nagra, Hena shows that poets throughout the world have reinvigorated older poetic traditions to address political realities and the sweeping pressures of modernity.