Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis - 9780367714086

Taylor & Francis

Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate CrisisAuthor(s): Andrew J. Auge, Eugene O'Brien\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367714086, 978-0367714086\nSynopsis\nContemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century Irish poetry. The poets that it surveys range from familiar presences in the contemporary Irish literary canon Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon to lesser-known figures, such as the experimental poet Maurice Scully, contemporary poets Stephen Sexton and Sean Hewitt, and the Irish-language poets Simon Faolin, Brd N Mhrin, and Mire Dinny Wren. Adopting a variety of ecotheoretical approaches, the essays gathered here address several interrelated themes crucial to the climate crisis: the way in which the scalar scope of climate change interweaves local and gl.