The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

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Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature over the last fifty years. In addition to providing a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, this Companion introduces the reader to significant precursors such as Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, as well as vital contemporaries and successors (including among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.) The volume includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers.

• Covers a broad range of Irish poetry in English and Irish, and includes chapters on individual writers
• Examines poetry from 1949 to the present day
• Will appeal to general readers as well as scholars