Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

ëresidualí.^27 Heaneyís early poems do not naively tap the roots of the Irish/Danish soil for an untouched national consciousnes ...

unrooted. According to Docherty, the continuity provided by ëa traditioní has fallen apart. To refer back to Arendt, this means ...

The Northern critic Ciaran Carson has attacked Heaney for perpetuating myths of violence.^31 Edna Longley also attacks his image ...

spite of this being ‘blasphemy’ in the eyes of the Catholic Church, the ancient Pagan or Druid rituals with their attention to c ...

interpret or mistake.í^34 When traditional forms of nationalism take the act of political representation as given or natural, de ...

In his poem ëOystersí from Field Work (1979), Heaney has associated the sea with poetic light and the imagination. As Neil Corco ...

of flight, exile, divided consciousness and the provision of clearances away from the sectarian ground of the North. Forever in ...

tradition.í^44 In ëThe King of the Ditchbacksí the poet writes of Sweeney: ëHe was depending on me as I hung out on the limb of ...

because such a statement ëseemed unduly loaded with political promiseí. Heaney argues that to go ëabove the brimí or beyond the ...

known/ already.í^52 Stepping into ëfree spaceí, the poet experiences his first flight. Yet in the sectarian context of Belfast, ...

he writes. This portrait is of Heaney as a deconstructive master who tests the English language and its ideologies to the limits ...

it is not so much a matter of attaching oneself to a living symbol of being rooted in the native ground; it was more a matter of ...

Making Strange Such a negotiation between the opposing forces of differing identities is typified in another poem from Station I ...

Another voice, an inner ëmiddle voiceí, advises the speaker to be ëboldí, imploring him to ëlove the cut of this travelled oneí ...

And decently relapse into the wrong Grammar which kept us allied and at bay.^62 The only way to relate to the mother is on her o ...

Revolutionary Russia and led the exponents of Russian Formalism to be suppressed by Stalin, silenced or forced into exile. Shklo ...

tradition as they excavate a hidden indigenous history rather than providing a model of cultural negotiation between developing ...

the population have been cast into a minority status and treated as an underclass. What is interesting in Longleyís comment is w ...

Crossings Andrew Murphy writes that seesawing between realms, refusing a definitive programme and providing ëcrossingsí between ...

it to what Frost called ësupply.í This is ëbuoyancyí in the face of gravity. Heaney implies with a sense of occasion, that Frost ...