Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry 1966-2010

In this book Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and compositional strategies for emerging Irish poets in the mid 1970s and beyond. His study presents a cohesive picture of the relationship between Northern Irish poetry from the Republic of Ireland since World War II and traces the lineage of lyric practice from a unique historical perspective. At the same time it recontextualizes late twentieth-century Irish poetry within the long Irish poetic tradition places Irish writing more accurately within the field of postwar Anglophone poetry and offers a new account of lyric''s critical capacities. Of interest to Irish studies and twentieth-century poetry specialists this book provides a much-needed guide to some of the most inventive and notable poetry written in the past forty years.