Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature - Sounds and Signs

Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature explores how poetic language can apprehend non-anthropocentric points of view.

List of contents

Introduction. Ecopoetics between Ethics and Epistemology
Chapter 1. The Search for Silence in the Poetry and Prose of Derek Mahon
Chapter 2. Breathing, Writing, Feeling: The Poetry of Paula Meehan
Chapter 3. The Songs of Light and Grace in the Poetry of Moya Cannon
Chapter 4. Reading the Language of Nature: the Poetry of Seán Lysaght

About the author

Wit Pietrzak is Professor of British and Irish literature at the University of Lodz, Poland.

Product details

• Authors: Wit Pietrzak, Pietrzak Wit
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.10.2025
• EAN: 9781041049869
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4104986-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, The environment, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000