Crisis and Contemporary Poetry

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: THE LIMITS OF EXPRESSION: REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY Form, Historical Crisis and Poetry's Hope in George Szirtes' 'Metro'; J.Sears Persona, Trauma, and Survival in Louise Glück's Postmodern, Mythic, Twenty-first Century 'October'; M.K.Azcuy Hern: The Catastrophe of Lyric in John Burnside; S.Brewster PART II: A SPECIAL CASE: CRISIS AND POETRY IN NORTHERN IRELAND 'In a ghostly pool of blood / a crumpled phantom hugged the mud': Spectropoetic Presentations of Bloody Sunday and the Crisis of Northern Ireland; R.Moi 'The Given Note' - Traditional Music, Crisis and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney; S.Crosson 'Crisis first-hand': Seamus Heaney Before and After the Ceasefire; S.Regan The Mundane and the Monstrous: Everyday Epiphanies in Northern Irish Poetry; C.I.Armstrong PART III: SITUATED WORDS: PLACE, ECOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE 'The Memorial to all of them': Landscape and the Holocaust in the Poetry of Michael Longley; B.Corcoran 'Toward a Brink': The Poetry of Kathleen Jamie and Environmental Crisis; L.Collins Sounding the Landscape: Dis-placement in the Poetry of Alice Oswald; J.S.Drangsholt Place, Narrative and Crisis in the Long Poems of Paul Muldoon; A.Karhio PART IV: SUSPENDED JUDGEMENTS: RETHINKING POETIC RECEPTION Paul Muldoon: Critical Judgment, the Crisis Poem, and the Ethics of Voice; G.Batten Displacing the Crisis: New British Poetry, Cultural Memory and the Rôle of the Intellectual; E.Mueller-Zettelmann The Body of Text Meets the Body as Text: Staging (I)dentity in the Work of SuAndi and Lemn Sissay; D.Osborne Selected Bibliography Index