Writing Home - Poetry and Place in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008

The idea of place, and of being displaced, is a powerful leit-motif in Northern Irish poetry. It is here explored in depth, from the 1960s to the present day.

List of contents

Introduction: The Lie of the Land
Paradigms and Precursors: Rooted Men and Nomads (John Hewitt, Patrick Kavan agh and Louis MacNeice)
John Montague: Global Regionalist
Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon: Omphalos and Diaspora
Patrick Fiacc and James Simmons
Michael Longley's Eco-Poetics
Derek Mahon: 'An Exile and A Stranger'
Tom Paulin: Dwelling Without Roots
Ciaran Carson: The New Urban Poetics
Medbh McGuckian: The Lyric of Gendered Space
New Voices (Peter McDonald, Sinead Morrissey, Alan Gillis and Leontia Flynn
Select Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2008
• EAN: 9781843841753
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-175-3
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 173 mm x 239 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 671 g
• Series: English Association Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism