The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057113761X ISBN 13: 9780571137619

Publisher: Paul Muldoon, 1986

Synopsis

Taking the death of Yeats in 1939 as its starting point and ending in the 1980s, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry offers unusually generous selections from the work of ten writers - Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian. Edited by Paul Muldoon, himself widely regarded as the leading Irish poet of his generation, this anthology provides a fine introduction to the most consistently impressive Irish poets after Yeats.

About this title

Book Description:

The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, edited by Paul Muldoon - widely regarded as the leading Irish poet of his generation - begins with the death of W. B. Yeats and ends in the 1980s, taking in along the way the likes of Seamus Heaney, Louis MacNeice, Medbh McGuckian and Patrick Kavanagh.

About the Author:

Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes (2006). Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards include the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Muldoon
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 057113761X
• ISBN 13: 9780571137619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Muldoon Paul