"This is a wide-ranging survey of how various forms of transnationalism (migration, travel, diaspora, colonialism, decolonization, globalization) register within modern and contemporary poetry. Ramazani looks at major modernist poets like Yeats, Eliot, and Hughes as well as more recent writers such as Derek Walcott, Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Linton Kwesi Johnson. He maps the complex paths of literary influence and formal energy that have shaped the development of a global Anglophone poetry."

Recommended by Eric Falci, Associate Professor of English and author of Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010