Irish Poetry and the Visual Arts
Transactions in Contemporary Poetics
Rui Carvalho Homem(Author)
Liverpool University Press
Will be published approx. on 11. September 2026
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-80596-011-9 (ISBN)
Description
For more than a century, Irish poetry has enjoyed a privileged relationship with the visual arts. This book shows how intensely this creative rapport has been cultivated. Its importance for our age becomes apparent from an in-depth discussion of the work of nine poets whose combined output extends from the 1960s to the first quarter of the new millennium: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan, Ciaran Carson, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon and Sinead Morrissey. The focus falls on the ways in which the images addressed in their poems are thematically framed by particular pictorial genres or modes: the portrait, the still life, the conversation piece, history painting and abstraction. These creative frameworks provide the thematic rationale for the book's five chapters, cumulatively demonstrating how a consistent engagement with the visual arts has bolstered the appeal of contemporary Irish poetry in global cultures.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80596-011-9 (9781805960119)
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Person
Rui Carvalho Homem is Professor of English at the University of Porto, Portugal. He has published widely on Irish poetry, early modern drama, translation studies and intermediality.
Content
Introduction
Bringing Out the Self: the portrait and the lyric
The Quick and the Dead: of selfhood, nature and the still life
'Private Relations': of families, personal bonds and 'conversations'
Beyond the Frame: history, painting - and the world out there
Go Figure: the challenges of abstraction
Conclusion: powerful relations
Bringing Out the Self: the portrait and the lyric
The Quick and the Dead: of selfhood, nature and the still life
'Private Relations': of families, personal bonds and 'conversations'
Beyond the Frame: history, painting - and the world out there
Go Figure: the challenges of abstraction
Conclusion: powerful relations