Ireland and Its Elsewheres is the next volume in UCD Press's The
Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland
Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established
in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to
Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast,
Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council
of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion.
Michael Longley's lectures were published in June 2015 and the next
volume will contain the lectures of Paula Meehan. In this volume,
the distinguished Dublin poet Harry Clifton - who has lived and
worked all over the globe - focuses on locating himself and other
Irish poets in relation to the literary traditions of Britain,
Europe and the United States. Clifton opens by recounting his time
living in London in the late eighties and early nineties. He
discusses how he and a group of other poets were part of London's
'cultural clutter', and how their poetry reckoned with a time of
great social and political upheaval in Britain. The second lecture
focusses on Irish poetry's place in the 'eternal present' of
Europe.Patrick Kavanagh and Thomas Kinsella are among the poets
discussed in this illuminating comparison between neighbouring
nations. Clifton closes the collection by extending his discussion
on poetry to the United States - a land of exiles and immigrants.
From Derek Mahon to Oscar Wilde, Clifton examines Irish poets in
the New World, and describes how America has come to mean 'artistic
posterity' for many of them. From one of Ireland's leading
contemporary poets, this volume gives readers a rare insight into
Irish poetry's place in the world.
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