Contemporary Irish poetry : a collection of critical essays

was educated at Leeds University. A Senior Lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast, he is the author of Poe and the British Magazine Tradition (1969), a British Association for American Studies pamphlet on Emily Dickinson (1985) and essays on American and Irish writers in various books and periodicals.Elmer Andrews was educated at Dalriada School, Ballymoney, and at Queen's University, Belfast, where he gained his MA and Ph.D. degrees. He has taught in Greece and at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. Currently, he is a Lecturer in English at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. His publications include The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper (1988), Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays (editor, forthcoming), and essays on American and Irish writers in various books and journals. 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 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. The second half concentrates on the work of individual poets. Written by the author of "The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper" and "Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays", this is a collection of contemporary Irish poetry.