Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : poetry, place and displacement
  • On the edge of things : Philip Larkin
  • A double man in a double place : Iain Crichton Smith
  • Salvaged from the ruins : Ken Smith's Constellations
  • Lost bearings : Christopher Middleton
  • 'What like is it?' : Carol Ann Duffy's Diffβerance
  • Darkening English : post-imperial contestations in Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott
  • Living in history
  • An age of simulation : tall tales and short stories
  • Nowhere anyone would like to get to
  • Milking the cow of the world : displacement displaced.