Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature

This is the second of four collections of essays published under the general title Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature which are devoted to critical analysis of Irish writing since the 1950s. Essays in this collection establish some of the defining characteristics of contemporary Irish poetry, examine common features of several groups of poets and present focused analyses of twelve individual poets. The contributors are Elmer Andrews, Rand Brandes, Rory Brennan, Terence Brown, Richard Allen Cave, Tom Clyde, Gerald Dawe, Peter Denman, Maurice Elliott, Eamon Grennan, Edna Longley, Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith, Kathleen McCracken, Peter McDonald, Ron Marken, Gerardine Meaney, Dennis O'Driscoll, Bernard O' Donoghuem Alan Peacock, Linda Revie, Robert Tracy, Stan Smith and Clair Wills.

Introduction
Contemporary Irish Poetry: An Overview	p. 1
The American Connection: An Influence on Modern and Contemporary Irish Poetry	p. 28
Foreign Relations: Irish and International Poetry	p. 48
The Language of Displacement in Contemporary Irish Poetry	p. 61
Contemporary Poetry in Irish: Private Language and Ancestral Voices	p. 84
History Gasps: Myth in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry	p. 99
The Echo Chamber: Some Emerging Ulster Poets	p. 114
Michael Foley, Robert Johnstone and Frank Ormsby: Three Ulster Poets in the Go Situation	p. 130
Telling Tales: Kennelly's Cromwell, Muldoon's 'The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants'	p. 144
Ways of Saying: Boland, Carson, McGuckian	p. 158
Seamus Heaney as a Critic	p. 174
A Shaping Music: Richard Murphy's The Price of Stone	p. 190
Poetry as Example: Kinsella's Peppercanister Poems	p. 204
John Montague: Poetry of the Depersonalised Self	p. 216
Into an Irish Free State: Heaney, Sweeney and Clearing Away	p. 238
Michael Longley: Poet Between Worlds	p. 263
Derek Mahon: Extreme Religion of Art	p. 280
Paul Durcan - Duarchain	p. 304
Tom Paulin: Underground Resistance Fighter	p. 329
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's 'Parthenogenesis': A Bisexual Exchange	p. 344
Ciaran Carson: Unraveling the Conditional, Mapping the Provisional	p. 356
Voices from the Nursery: Medbh McGuckian's Plantation	p. 373
'The Half-Said Thing to Them is Dearest': Paul Muldoon	p. 395
Notes	p. 419
Notes on Contributors	p. 451
Index	p. 455
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