The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry : Volume Four
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 100673191
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Wake Forest University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-930630-77-2
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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5
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series: Volume 4 follows a slightly unusual format for a poetry anthology. It features extensive selections from the work of five poets, each prefaced by a critical essay of mine. The five poets (Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Ailbhe Darcy, Peter McDonald, Aidan Mathews, Trevor Joyce) were chosen as representing important strands in contemporary Irish poetry, viz.: the Irish-language tradition, women’s writing, the Northern Irish lyric, the religious inheritance, and experimental writing. My critical apparatus for the work amounts to roughly 20,000 words, and is designed to highlight the plurality of Irish poetry today. Writing for a US audience, I was keen to correct simplistic narratives of Irish poetry based, most often, on the non-availability of any evidence to the contrary. Thus, I use the poetry of Trevor Joyce to demonstrate the continuing vibrancy of an experimental strain in Irish writing owing more to the inheritance of Joyce and Beckett than the contemporary example of Seamus Heaney. I was aware too that none of the previous volumes in the series had engaged with the Irish language, and in filling in this blank was able to provide my own translations for the relevant section. By way of example of how one research project often leads to another, another of the featured poets, Ailbhe Darcy, has gone on to be my collaborator on The Cambridge History of Irish Women’s Poetry, begun shortly after this anthology appeared and due for publication in 2021. The anthology appeared around the same time as an American edition of my last poetry book, also from Wake Forest UP, and is an example – not the last I hope – of the reach of my research into the American market
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- Non-English
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