Clio's Ground

<p>...there is that second strand the fitful halting strand of Irish modernism a bare technique picked up by Beckett and carried through by writers such as... neo-Classicist poet Fergal Gaynor. James Joyce would have recognised these contemporary writers instantly knowing that their modernist efforts to escape from the story-teller material of Ireland should lead to new forms... -Thomas McCarthy <em>Irish Examiner</em></p><p></p><p>Few poets have cast a colder eye on the inevitability of decline without surrendering to it: 'The sclerotic being dismantled / a fine automaton springs downtrack.' -Keith Tuma</p>