Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry Virlana Tkacz

Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry Virlana TkaczA decade on from the major anthology Watching the River Flow (Poetry Ireland igse ireann, 1999), Dedalus Press reissues the ten introductory essays from that book, by some of the best known names in contemporary Irish poetry (Eavan Boland, Ciaran Carson, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley, John Montague, Eilan N Chuilleanin, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Bernard O'Donoghue and Cathal Searcaigh) bringing the survey up to the present day with the

Through the voices of those who led the struggle against colonialism -- Samuel Jackman Prescod

Fried re-conceives the contemporary sonnet as an arena where fragments of self and samples of lingo play off against one another

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Arthur Rimbaud

One of their great pleasures is that they retain a flavour of the speaking voice: enthusiastic

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Woods is also one of the founder editors of the long-running literary journal Cyphers

Her previous young adult books have won the North East Book Award

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Abdu Khal: Establishing an Aesthetic

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Here are political poems from the '70s and '80s which speak openly about the horrors of the Soviet system