Taking the death of Yeats as its starting point and ending at the present day, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry offers unusually generous selections from the work of ten writers - Patrick Kavanagh, Louis Mac Niece, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian - the most consistently impressive Irish poets after Yeats.The editor, Paul Muldoon, is the author of seven collections of poems and an opera libretto, Shining Brow. He is widely regarded as the leading Irish poet of his generation.
- ISBN13 9780571137619
- Publish Date 26 May 1986
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 31 January 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English
- URL https://allenandunwin.com/browse/books/9780571137619