Writing Home: Poetry and Place in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008

by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

Ideas of home, place and identity have been continually questioned, re-imagined and re-constructed in Northern Irish poetry. Concentrating on the period since the outbreak of the Troubles in the late 1960s, this study provides a detailed consideration of the work of several generations of poets, from Hewitt and MacNeice, to Fiacc and Montague, to Simmons, Heaney, Mahon and Longley, to Muldoon, Carson, Paulin and McGuckian, to McDonald, Morrissey,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843841754
• ISBN13: 9781843841753
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.4"