In this book, Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and ...compositional strategies for emerging Irish poets in the mid 1970s and beyond. His study presents a cohesive picture of the relationship between Northern Irish poetry from the Republic of Ireland since World War II and traces the lineage of lyric practice from a unique historical perspective. At the same time, it recontextualizes late twentieth-century Irish poetry within the long Irish poetic tradition, places Irish writing more accurately within the field of postwar Anglophone poetry and offers a new account of lyric's critical capacities. Of interest to Irish studies and twentieth-century poetry specialists, this book provides a much-needed guide to some of the most inventive and notable poetry written in the past forty years.
Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world's most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an ...essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.
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The essay focuses on the figure of the house in Leontia Flynn’s Profit and Loss (2011) in order to show that it evokes an arena where the poet confronts her anxieties over the precariousness of her ...life and over her vocation. Having briefly framed the discussion of the house in contemporary Irish poetry, the essay goes on to argue that in Flynn’s rendition, it is transformed from initially being a site of baleful haunting into a stable ground of poetic space, in which the speaker can come to terms with her griefs and fears.
This article discusses the western landscape in Michael Longley's poems, a physical, imaginary, and aesthetic space that displays some of the most sustained tensions between self and other, the ...ecological and the political in his work. Drawing on Timothy Morton's ideas such as intimate strangeness, interconnectedness, and difference, this article argues that the sense of interconnectedness in Longley's poems values an ecological interdependency that emphasizes defamiliarization, instability, strangeness, and difference. It informs a philosophy of co-existence that stands against fixed dwelling and rigid identity categorisation both within and beyond the Northern Ireland situation.
