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This volume is the first comprehensive study of the poetry of Bloody Sunday written by critically acclaimed Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Deane and Medbh McGuckian.
List of contents
1. Anger, Grief and Silencing: An Introduction to the Poetry of Bloody Sunday
2. 'A voice that rises directly from below': Theorising the Poetry of Bloody Sunday
3. 'More voices rose. I turned and saw / Three corpses forming red and raw': Bloody Sunday and Its Dead in Thomas Kinsella's 'Butcher's Dozen' (1972)
4. 'My Heart Besieged by Anger, My Mind a Gap of Danger': Bloody Sunday in Seamus Heaney's 'The Road to Derry' (1972) and 'Casualty' (1979)
5. 'Death is our future and now is our past': Bloody Sunday in Seamus Deane's 'After Derry, 30 January 1972'
6. Lost in Obliquity? Bloody Sunday in Paul Muldoon's Poetry
7. Medbh McGuckian's Return to Bloody Sunday: The Poetry of Bloody Sunday after the Second Inquiry
About the author
Kübra Özermi¿ is a postdoctoral researcher and assistant lecturer at Freie University Berlin. She teaches English and Irish Literary and Cultural Studies at Freie University Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin. Her article on 'Masculinities in Sally Rooney's Normal People' will be published in the Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney, and her article on 'Masculinities on Murals: Tension between Hypermasculinity and Victimisation on Republican Murals in Derry and Belfast' will be published in a special edition of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures.
