
The New Irish Poets
Selina Guinness(Editor)
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-85224-673-0 (ISBN)
Description
The New Irish Poets is a landmark anthology of the newest generation of Irish writers now making their mark in poetry at the start of the 21st century. Selina Guinness's lively selection covers over 30 poets of all ages from all parts of Ireland who've produced ?rst collections over the past ten years, offering rare insights into how the freshest writing talents have responded to a period of profound social, cultural and political change in the Republic and in Northern Ireland.
Dynamic and con?dent in their diverse voices - whether conversational, caustic or solemn in tone - these poets open up the world to unexpected horizons, unsuspected pleasures and surprising conclusions. The book supplies a new measure for Ireland in the coming times. The New Irish Poets features all of the prominent new poets who've received major awards and international critical recognition as well as giving a platform to less well-known new writers published by small presses. Illustrated with photographs and helpful editorial commentaries, the book includes a parallel-text selection of poems by three new Irish-language poets.
Nearly half the writers are women, and there's a broad mix of young and old, ranging from Fergus Allen, now in his 80s - but who made his debut ten years ago - to the youngest, Leanne O'Sullivan, who is only 21: her ?rst collection Waiting for Her Clothes is published by Bloodaxe at the same time as this anthology. With its wide-ranging, up-to-the-minute selections, The New Irish Poets bears witness to the amazing growth and ?owering of contemporary Irish poetry over the past decade.
Dynamic and con?dent in their diverse voices - whether conversational, caustic or solemn in tone - these poets open up the world to unexpected horizons, unsuspected pleasures and surprising conclusions. The book supplies a new measure for Ireland in the coming times. The New Irish Poets features all of the prominent new poets who've received major awards and international critical recognition as well as giving a platform to less well-known new writers published by small presses. Illustrated with photographs and helpful editorial commentaries, the book includes a parallel-text selection of poems by three new Irish-language poets.
Nearly half the writers are women, and there's a broad mix of young and old, ranging from Fergus Allen, now in his 80s - but who made his debut ten years ago - to the youngest, Leanne O'Sullivan, who is only 21: her ?rst collection Waiting for Her Clothes is published by Bloodaxe at the same time as this anthology. With its wide-ranging, up-to-the-minute selections, The New Irish Poets bears witness to the amazing growth and ?owering of contemporary Irish poetry over the past decade.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tyne and Wear
United Kingdom
Illustrations
33 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85224-673-0 (9781852246730)
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Person
Selina Guinness was born in Dublin. She lived in Budapest, London and Oxford before returning to work as Lecturer in Irish Literature at The Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. Her memoir about farming on the fringes of the city, The Crocodile by the Door, was published in 2012 by Penguin Ireland. It was shortlisted for the UK Costa Book Awards (Biography) and nominated for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book Awards. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies, All Over Ireland (Faber), and The Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction, 2005 - 2015 (New Island). Her essays and collaborative non-fiction have been published by Winter Papers, The Dublin Review and Another Chicago. She is also the editor of the anthology, The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2004), and has translated poems by Sandor Marai from the Hungarian. She was the Arts Council / Irish Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2018. She is currently writing a novel set in Budapest in 2015, and is studying for a Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester.