Publisher's Synopsis
This comprehensive account of contemporary Irish poetry contains 14 essays dealing with the poetry that has come out of Ireland since the mid-1960s. The first half of the book is devoted to general issues and themes, and takes account of the interrelationships of contemporary Irish poetry - poetry and politics, poetry and history, poetry and myth, poetry and place, poetry and women. The second half concentrates on the work of individual poets.;Amongst the poets whose work is discussed in this book are Eaven Boland, Ciaran Carson, Paul Durcan, Seamus Heaney, John Hewitt, Pearse Hutchinson, Brendan Kennelly, Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley, Thomas McCarthy, Mdbh McGuckian, Derek Mahon, John Montague, Paul Muldoon, Richard Murphy, Frank Ormsby, Tom Paulin, James Simmons and Macdara Woods. Elmer Andrews is the author of "The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper", editor of "Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays", and contributing editor of "Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays".
