In this Book
- Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Liverpool University Press
summary
This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the complex responses to the past recorded by contemporary women poets in Ireland and the implications these have for the concept of a national tradition.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
Table of Contents

- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-x
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xiii
- I Concepts
- II Achievements
- 4 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Spaces of Memory
- pp. 111-138
- 5 Medbh McGuckian’s Radical Temporalities
- pp. 139-168
- 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux
- pp. 169-194
- 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality
- pp. 195-217
- Conclusion: Memories of the Future
- pp. 218-224
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9781781384695
Related ISBN(s)
9781781381878
MARC Record
OCLC
1137756559
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2020-01-30
Language
English
Open Access
Yes