Browsing English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications) by Subject "Poetry"
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“An art that knows its mind”: prayer, poetry and post-Catholic identity in Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings”
(Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014)Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings” sequence from his 1991 collection Seeing Things speaks of the “virtue of an art that knows its mind”. This sequence attempts to know the mind in both its immanent and transcendent aspects, through ... -
Let Ireland weep: poetry of loss in the First World War
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North: The Politics of Plurality
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 1999)This essay will offer a theoretical reading both of North, and its critics; it will also analyse the criticisms of North in terms of its speaking with the voice of the tribe. I hope to demonstrate that, in fact, what is ... -
‘Ship of fools’: The Celtic Tiger and poetry as social critique (Pre-published version)
(Manchester University Press, 2014)