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‘Repeat the Changes Change the Repeats': Alternative Irish Poetry, in Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry

John Goodby

Pages: 607 - 628

Swansea University Author: John Goodby

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General introduction to the field, which asserts the need for far more critical attention to be devoted to the neo-modernist strain in Irish poetry, while problematising the usual distinction operated by critics and reviewers between 'alternative' and 'mainstream' poetries, and c...

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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2012
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa344
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Abstract: General introduction to the field, which asserts the need for far more critical attention to be devoted to the neo-modernist strain in Irish poetry, while problematising the usual distinction operated by critics and reviewers between 'alternative' and 'mainstream' poetries, and comparing the Irish situation unfavourably with those iobtaining in the UK and US. Briefly discusses Eugene Watter's The Week-End of Dermot and Grace and New Writers' Press, and the work (including the most recent) of Geoffrey Squires, Trevor Joyce, Maurice Scully and Catherine Walsh.
Keywords: Irish, alternative, poetry, Trevor Joyce, Geoffrey Squires, Michael Smith, New Writers' Press, Eugene Watters, The Week-End of Dermot and Grace, Maurice Scully, Catherine Walsh, James Hogan (Augustus Young), Billy Mills, J. C. C. Mays, Randolph Healy, Things That Happen, Mike Begnal, Burning Bush, The Lace Curtain, Optic Verve
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 607
End Page: 628