Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry

typified by his poem ëTwiceí where the schoolboy stands grinning at
both ends of the school photograph, and which provides a memorable
metaphor for the duality and the dis-positions that have been found in
the borderline poems focused on here. This argument can be taken
further by considering the ëborderline disordersí of Irish female poets,
and can be problematized with reference to feminist as well as post-
colonial discussion of identity politics.