Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-24
Borderlands of Irish Poetry....Pages 25-40
Myth and Modernity in Irish Poetry....Pages 41-62
The Aesthetic and the Territorial....Pages 63-85
History and Poetry: Derek Mahon and Tom Paulin....Pages 86-106
History and its Retrieval in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry: Paulin, Montague and Others....Pages 107-123
Place and Displacement: Reflections on Some Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland....Pages 124-144
The Landscape of Three Irelands: Hewitt, Murphy and Montague....Pages 145-167
The Suburban Night: On Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan and Thomas McCarthy....Pages 168-193
‘Move, if you move, like water’: The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella, 1972–88....Pages 194-213
Rhythm and Development in Michael Longley’s Earlier Poetry....Pages 214-234
The Poetry of Derek Mahon: ‘places where a thought might grow’....Pages 235-263
The Thoughtful Songs of James Simmons....Pages 264-285
The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian....Pages 286-309
Paul Muldoon: ‘Who’s to know what’s knowable?’....Pages 310-327
Back Matter....Pages 328-344