Print version: Collins, Lucy Contemporary Irish Women Poets Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,c2015 ISBN 9781781381878
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text -- I Concepts -- 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland -- 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet -- 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry -- II Achievements -- 4 Eilean Ni Chuilleanain’s Spaces of Memory -- 5 Medbh McGuckian’s Radical Temporalities -- 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux -- 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality -- Conclusion: Memories of the Future -- Bibliography -- Index.
Original study of contemporary women poets in Ireland, presenting readings of four important poets (Eavan Boland, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Mairead Byrne and Vona Groarke) and exploring themes and patterns in contemporary Irish women’s poetry..