1st Edition
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis
Introduction
Chapter One: Reading Heaney’s Bog Poems in the Anthropocene
Andrew Auge
Chapter Two: Songs in Stone: Moya Cannon and Ecomusicology
Donna Potts
Chapter Three: ‘Balanced between Cliff and Flowers’: The Enduring Earth Step in Moya Cannon’s ‘Word Pools’
Christine Cusick
Chapter Four: Doing the Human Differently: Rabbits and Hares in Contemporary Irish Poetry
Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Chapter Five: ‘The Struck Lyre Ripples as a Stricken Voice’: The Poetry of Derek Mahon from Landscape to Ecology
Jefferson Holdridge
Chapter Six: Heaney’s Proffer: Tollund Man, Catastrophic Climate Change, and the Responsibility to Mourn
Brendan Corcoran
Chapter Seven: Vegetal Life in Maurice Scully’s Humming: A Tangle of Bright Fragments
Lucy Collins
Chapter Eight: ‘When Species Meet’: Scale and Form in the Poetry of Ciaran Berry and Moya Cannon
Eóin Flannery
Chapter Nine: The Corncrake, the Climate Crisis and Irish-language Poetry
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
Chapter Ten: ‘A Stain from the Sky is Descending’: The Poetics of Climate Change in Irish Poetry
Eugene O’Brien
Biography
Andrew J. Auge is a Professor of English and Director of the Irish Studies minor at Loras College, Dubuque, IA, USA. He also serves as an Advisory Editor for New Hibernia Review. He received a PhD in British Literature from Marquette University.
Eugene O’Brien is Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College, Ireland, and is also the director of the Mary Immaculate College Institute for Irish Studies.
