Newcastle to New York: Tom Pickard and the Transnational Networks of Late-Modernist Poetry.

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This thesis is the first full-length scholarly study of North East modernist poet Tom Pickard. Itsituates his work within the transnational networks which shaped and sustained late-modernistverse. Drawing on poetry and relevant archival materials, the project appraises Pickard's workas an embodiment of creative alliance, reimagining poetic labour as an essential operation ofworking class communities amid deindustrialization. Study of his example will facilitate a widerdiscussion of collective actualization in a post-war literary milieu: of allies working togetheragainst the material conditions of poverty, unemployment, class constraints, and thebureaucratization of the arts under late capitalism.