Research guides: Irish Literature & Cinema: Poetry

Poetry

Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry.
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Edited by Matthew Campbell.
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
[For print version locations see UofT Catalogue]
This companion introduces major figures such as Seamus Heaney while providing an overview of precursors like Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh and more recent writers such as Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon. The volume contains a chronology, as well as a guide to further reading.
The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000.
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By Justin Quinn.
Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism.
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By Terence Brown.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn: Intertextuality in the Work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian.
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By Stephanie Schwerter.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry.
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Edited by Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, and Fran Brearton.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets.
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Edited by Gerald Dawe.
Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology.
Edited by Patrick Crotty.
Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1995.
This major collection of modern Irish poetry contains more than 250 poems from 47 different poets. Each poet’s entry has a short biographical essay. Women and lesser-known poets are well represented.