Poetry's Abracadabra: Essays on Michael Longley - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Meg TylerSeries:Dillon Johnston CriticalTheme:Cultural Region/BritishPublish date:6/1/2026Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wake Forest University PressISBN-13:9781943667208ISBN-10:1943667209UPC:9781943667208Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Poetry, European, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.51 x 6.01 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SC0KJEQ380
Poetry's Abracadabra offers a full appraisal of Michael Longley's poetic achievement, from his earliest work in the 1960s to the late collections published before his death in 2025. Written by leading poets and scholars of contemporary Irish poetry, this collection of ten essays reveals new insights into Longley's thirteen collections as well as his prose, interviews, and archival material. The essays in this volume explore his drafting process and dedicatory poems, his pastoral considerations of Western Ireland and eco-poetics, his various inspirations, from Philip Larkin to American women poets, and his masterful interpretations of Virgil and Homer. Placing Longley's career in the context of his Belfast contemporaries as well as the wider scope of contemporary poetry, this book confirms Donald Hall's assessment of Michael Longley as one of the great poets " whose work will endure while the English language does."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wake Forest University PressISBN-13:9781943667208ISBN-10:1943667209UPC:9781943667208Book Category:Literary Criticism, PoetryBook Subcategory:Poetry, European, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.51 x 6.01 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.409Product ID:SC0KJEQ380
Meg Tyler teaches Humanities at Boston University, where she also directs a poetry series. Her book on Seamus Heaney, A Singing Contest, was published by Routledge in their series Major Literary Authors. Her book of poems, More Feathers in the Lake Than Swans, came out from Finishing Line Press in 2025. Her poems and prose have appeared in Agni, Literary Imagination, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, Irish Review, and other journals. A recent essay on " The Plaints of Robert Lowell," appeared in Robert Lowell in Context, edited by Thomas Austenfeld and Grzegorz Kosc (Cambridge UP, 2024).
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