The idea of place, and of being displaced, is a powerful leit-motif in Northern Irish poetry. It is here explored in depth, from the 1960s to the present day
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The idea of place, and of being displaced, is a powerful leit-motif in Northern Irish poetry. It is here explored in depth, from the 1960s to the present day
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-295) and index
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FRONTCOVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS; 1. Introduction: The Lie of the Land; 2. Paradigms and Precursors: Rooted Men and Nomads (John Hewitt, Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice); 3. John Montague: Global Regionalist?; 4. Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon: Omphalos and Diaspora; 5. Padraic Fiacc and James Simmons; 6. Michael Longley's Ecopoetics; 7. Derek Mahon: 'An Exile and a Stranger'; 8. Tom Paulin: Dwelling without Roots; 9. Ciaran Carson: The New Urban Poetics; 10. Medbh McGuckian: The Lyric of Gendered Space
11. New Voices (Peter McDonald, Sinead Morrissey, Alan Gillis and Leontia Flynn)SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; BACKCOVER