Contemporary Irish Poetry, New and Revised editon

By: Anthony Bradley

Book Overview

The poems featured in this anthology are quintessentially human documents informed by humor, compassion, and a joyful and visionary element--an impulse to praise what is really life and to protect it from the naysayers--as well as by a salutary realism and irony.

This revised edition features the work of Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Durcan, Aidan Carl Mathews, Anne Hartigan, Nuala n Dhomhnaill, and others who were not included in the first edition. Moreover, the selections from those poets featured in the first edition have, in many cases, been extensively changed and updated. In total, more than half the poems published in this second edition did not appear in the first.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520058747
• ISBN13: 9780520058743
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Beginning

Bradley's sure hand makes "Contemporay Irish Poetry" an engaging introduction to Irish poetry after Yeates, and his selections - such writers are Kavenaugh, Clarke, Kinsella and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney - show an eye for the major figures of today and thier influential predecessors, while not neglecting younger voices. Bradley's judicious selections from the individual writers lend a sense of their larger oeuvre, and the arrangement of the poets, the short bios which preface thier work and the convenient notes allow the reader to gain a sense of the larger issues of 20th century Ireland which the poets confront in their work. Very nicely done.