The Poetics of Migration in Contemporary Irish Poetry 1st Edition by Ailbhe Mcdaid ISBN 3319638041 978-3319638041

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ISBN 10: 3319638041 

ISBN 13: 978-3319638041

Author: Ailbhe Mcdaid

This book offers fresh critical interpretation of two of the central tenets of Irish culture – migration and memory. From its starting point with the ‘New Irish’ generation of poets in the United States during the 1980s and concluding with the technological innovations of 21st-century poetry, this study spans continents, generations, genders and sexualities to reconsider the role of memory and of migration in the work of a range of contemporary Irish poets. Combining sensitive close readings and textual analysis with thorough theoretical application, it sets out the formal, thematic, socio-cultural and literary contexts of migration as an essential aspect of Irish literature. This book is essential reading for literary critics, academics, cultural commentators and students with an interest in contemporary poetry, Irish studies, diaspora studies and memory studies.

Table of contents: 

1. American highways

1. ‘the busy work of forgetting’: memory and community in Eamonn Wall’s America
2. ‘half and halfed’: Greg Delanty’s modes of belonging
3. ‘merely a brown trout / with wanderlust’: migrant identity in Paul Muldoon’s poetry

2. Alternative cartographies

1. ‘I mean it as no ordinary return’: Vona Groarke in America
2. ‘laying holy miles between myself and home’: Sara Berkeley’s ecopoetics

3. Memory spaces

1. ‘Neither here nor there, and therefore home’: memory and myth in Bernard O’Donoghue’s poetry
2. ‘Listen to that for twisting’: Martina Evans and manipulations of the past
3. ‘Imagine a tilt and the consequence’: Colette Bryce’s strategies of escape

4. Wandering songs

1. ‘No need to mention where all this was’: Harry Clifton’s cultivated marginality
2. ‘As at home here as I’ll ever be’: Sinéad Morrissey and the poetry of parallax

5. Technologies of distance

1. ‘personal history irrelevant’: Justin Quinn’s Fuselage
2. ‘Refresh: There’s nothing left to send/receive.’: migration, technology and poetic innovation in Conor O’Callaghan’s poetry

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