Teaching modern Irish poetry / edited by Anna Teekell and Guinn Batten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Teekell, Anna, editor.

Batten, Guinn, editor.

Series:

Options for teaching ; 71.

Options for teaching ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Irish authors--Study and teaching (Higher).

English poetry.

Irish poetry--Study and teaching (Higher).

Irish poetry.

Physical Description:

xii, 295 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2026.

Summary:

"Provides college instructors with class activities and pedagogical methods for teaching modern Irish poetry. Topics include works by Irish writers of color, queer poets, and women and issues such as feminism, immigration, gender, activism, and climate change. Teaching Irish poetry in the Netherlands, Australia, and Mexico is also covered"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Teaching modern Irish poetry today / Anna Teekell

The exemplary Irish poem / Eric Falci

"Watermarks under all that we say" : teaching Irish poetry in Belfast / Fran Brearton

Irish and Anglo-Irish poetry in Australia : a thematic approach / Chris Murray

Granting the last word : teaching modern and contemporary Irish poetry / Jefferson Holdridge

Joggerfrying the syllabus : teaching Irish poetry place by place / Philip Keel Geheber

What syllabi say about what we teach / Ian David Clark

Three Irish poems for thinking about activism / Ailbhe Darcy

Animal poetics and teaching modern Irish poetry / Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Teaching Irish poetry and trauma theory / Donna L. Potts

Queering marriage in Irish poetry / Ed Madden

Teaching first-year students rhetoric and close reading with a contemporary Irish poem / Dirk M. Killen and Erin M. Finneran

Teaching and peer teaching Irish poetry in a college of education / Christopher Cusack

Creative writing pedagogy and new and inclusive approaches to Irish poetry / Julie Morrissy

Teaching Irish poetry in Mexico / Mario Murgia

Teaching modern Irish poetry to language learners / Hilary Mhic Suibhne

Teaching Irish poetry with classical literature / Elizabeth Fredericks

Modern Irish poetry and the Táin / Matthieu Boyd

The challenge of Yeats / Magdalena Kay

How to teach a poem haunted by history / Sarah Berry

Voice, vision, text : teaching Eavan Boland's "The singers" / Jane Elizabeth Dougherty

Ceol, caint, agus craic : teaching Ciaran Carson's "Hamlet" / Matthew Campbell

French kissing in the Gaeltacht and other allusions in recent Irish poetry / Lucy McDiarmid

Through the eye of the lyric : Seamus Heaney and the poetry of self-reflection / Michelle Raelene Miles

Irish poetry in the library: Yeats's "The rose tree" / Kathryn Conrad and Elspeth Healey

On second thoughts : teaching a poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa using digitized drafts / Adam Hanna

Memory unexpurgated : ephemera in the classroom / Tapasya Narang

Listening to the future : the Irish Poetry Reading Archive / Lucy Collins

What Irish poets can teach us about approaching Irish poetry / Guinn Batten

Exercises and assignments for the undergraduate poetry classroom / Anna Teekell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version Teaching modern Irish poetry

ISBN:

9781603297332

1603297332

9781603297349

1603297340

OCLC:

1583155338