Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement / Lucy Collins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, Lucy, 1967- author.

Series:

Liverpool English texts and studies ; 66.

Liverpool English texts and studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--Women authors.

English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English poetry--Irish authors.

Physical Description:

xiii, 248 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This book examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the complex responses to the past recorded by contemporary women poets in Ireland and the implications these have for the concept of a national tradition. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Concepts

Chapter 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland 23

Chapter 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet 49

Chapter 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry 78

II Achievements

Chapter 4 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory 111

Chapter 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities 139

Chapter 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux 169

Chapter 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.

ISBN:

9781781381878

1781381879

OCLC:

907177860