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  • Chapter 12 - Northern Irish Poetry

  • from Part Three - Forms and Practices
  • Edited by Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The New Irish Studies
    Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020, pp 211-227

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on Northern Irish poetry in the twenty-first century and looks in particular at the work of Alan Gillis, Leontia Flynn, and Sinéad Morrissey in order to understand the relationship between the formal dynamics that have underpinned Northern Irish poetry – a general and continuing commitment to lyric conventions and to “the well-made poem” – and the shifting social and cultural conditions of Northern Ireland in the two decades since the Good Friday Agreement. Examining the ways that Gillis, Flynn, and Morrissey absorb and refract the compositional styles and formal tendencies of several precursor poets, this chapter suggests that all three aim to find what remains viable within the gallery of shapes, tones, and modes that have characterized Northern Irish poetry since the 1960s in order to catch and represent contemporary conditions in the North.