Poets and Poetry of Munster

One Hundred Years of Poetry from South Western Ireland With a foreword by Declan Kiberd

Stephanie Schwerter, Cliona Ni Riordain

• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9783838277646
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

This collection is a multi-author volume of essays examining the work of over twenty poets from South Western Ireland, who write in both English and Irish. Offering overviews of each of the poets' work, the chapters also focus on significant features of their respective oeuvres. Among the poets studied are Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Sean O Tuama, John Montague, Gerry Murphy, Thomas McCarthy, Trevor Joyce, and Doireann Ni Ghriofa. The multifaceted volume addresses the different currents that are significant in the work of these poets, from the Modernism of MacGreevy to the politico-historical approach adopted by Thomas McCarthy. It places poetry in English and Irish side by side and creates a system of echoes that become apparent when the poets work is read in conjunction with that of their fellow writers. The contributors to the volume come from Ireland, the US, and Europe and include confirmed and emerging academics. "e;The volume greatly enhances our knowledge of Irish poetry. It offers a comprehensive vision of poetic writing from the South-West of Ireland, both in Irish and in English."e; Munira Hamud Mutran, professor of Irish Studies, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil The south of Ireland has been blessed with several excellent, albeit underestimated poets. While readers who are aware of the accomplishments with figures such as John Montague, Elaine Ni Chuillianain, Thomas McGreevy, and Sean Dunne will welcome Poets of Munster with pleasure, readers unfamiliar with these writers will be grateful to learn of the hidden riches revealed in this book. Charles Armstrong, professor of English literature, University of Agder, Norway

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Thomas MacGreevy’s Experimental Poetry: The Munster Connections, Continental Modernism and Ambivalence
• Rooted Cosmopolitanism in Máire Mhac an tSaoi’s Poetry
• ‘Raghaidh mé síos ag lorg daoirse’: Seán Ó Ríordáin and la mauvaise foi
• From Cork to Crete via Paris Sean Ó Tuama, Professor and Poet
• The Haunted Parish: Patrick Galvin
• The Fury of Love in John Montague’s The Rough Field
• A Singular Life: The Poet Michael Hartnett
• History, Poetics and Hermeneutics in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
• Place, Precarity and Probity in the Poetry of Bernard O’Donoghue
• Rí-éigeas an ghrá: The Poetry of Pádraig Mac Fhearghusa
• Trevor Joyce: Towards the Fastness
• Gabriel Rosenstock, Trickster
• Liam Ó Muirthile: The Craft of Language
• The Sirens of Nothingness: The Poetry of Gerry Murphy
• ‘The Scarlet Woman Returns’: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s Poetics of Dislocation and Displacement
• ‘Dreams of Other-Whereness’ for an Irish Sailing Poet: Contemporary Re-imaginings of Greek Myths in the Poetry of Theo Dorgan
• Stair and Story: The Matter of Ireland in the Poems of Thomas McCarthy
• Seán Dunne: Poet and Translator
• Sa Bhaile: Greg Delanty Writes Home
• Hybrid Music in the Poetry of P. Bushe, M. Davitt, D. Ní Ghríofa, L. de Paor, M. Riordan
• ‘The clear exposure of a soul’: The Poetry of Colm Breathnach
• Nodes and Networks: Hyper Contemporary Poetry
• Authors
• Index of Poems
• General Index