Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry

Introduction Edna Longley; 1. Swordsmen: W. B. Yeats and Hugh MacDiarmid Patrick Crotty; 2. Tradition and the individual editor: Professor Grierson, modernism and national poetics Cairns Craig; 3. Louis MacNeice among the islands John Kerrigan; 4. Townland, desert, cave: Irish and Scottish Second World War poetry Peter Mackay; 5. Affinities in time and space: reading the Gaelic poetry of Ireland and Scotland Maire Ni Annrachain; 6. Contemporary affinities Douglas Dunn; 7. The classics in modern Scottish and Irish poetry Robert Crawford; 8. Translating Beowulf: Edwin Morgan and Seamus Heaney Hugh Magennis; 9. Reading in the gutters Eric Falci; 10. 'What matters is the yeast': 'foreignising' Gaelic poetry Christopher Whyte; 11. Outside English: Irish and Scottish poets in the East Justin Quinn; 12. Names for nameless things: the poetics of place names Alan Gillis; 13. Desire lines: mapping the city in contemporary Belfast and Glasgow poetry Aaron Kelly; 14. 'The ugly burds without wings'?: Reactions to tradition since the 1960s Eleanor Bell; 15. 'And cannot say/and cannot say': Richard Price, Randolph Healy and the Dialogue of the Deaf David Wheatley; 16. On 'The Friendship of Young Poets': Douglas Dunn, Michael Longley, and Derek Mahon Fran Brearton; 17. 'No misprints in this work': the poetic 'translations' of Medbh McGuckian and Frank Kuppner Leontia Flynn; 18. Phoenix or dead crow? Irish and Scottish poetry magazines 1945-2000 Edna Longley; 19. Out with the pale: Irish-Scottish studies as an act of translation Michael Brown; Further reading; Index.