Con = with
temp = time
Contemporary poetry means with the times or, in other words, written at the same time as others.
If I write a poem and you write a poem, they would be contemporary.
Byron, Keats and Shelley's were contemporary poetry .
Contemporary English poetry is poetry in English from the present and recent past.
Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry has 418 pages.
The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry was created in 1982.
Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry was created in 1993-06.
Alexander Aspel has written: 'Contemporary French poetry; fourteen witnesses of man's fate, edited by Alexander Aspel and Donald Justice. Introd. by Alexander Aspel. Postface by Paul Engle' -- subject(s): English poetry, French poetry, Translations from French, Translations into English 'Contemporary French poetry'
Patrick Gleeson has written: 'A first reader of contemporary American poetry' -- subject(s): American poetry
Michael Bishop has written: 'The contemporary poetry of France' -- subject(s): French poetry, History and criticism 'Contemporary French women poets' -- subject(s): French poetry, History and criticism, Women authors 'Michel Deguy' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation
Francesco Dragosei has written: 'Contemporary British poetry'
H. Nemerov has written: 'Contemporary American poetry'
A. Poulin has written: 'A momentary order' 'In advent' 'The nameless garden' 'Contemporary American poetry' -- subject(s): American poetry
It's found in a book titled The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Jeffery Paine on page 215.
James Norman Mosel has written: 'Trends and structure in contemporary Thai poetry' -- subject(s): Thai poetry