A generation before the groundbreaking achievements of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Biddy Jenkinson, Medbh McGuckian, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Rita Ann Higgins, and others, and in more daunting s
What does it mean to be an Irish poet? Each of the five poets included in this volume?Sean Lysaght, Moya Cannon, Thomas McCarthy, John F. Deane, and Maire Mhac an tSaoi?provides a distinctive answer t
