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Book SynopsisNorthern Windows/Southern Stars is a valuable, accessible and thought-provoking gathering of essays by the distinguished Irish poet and Professor Emeritus, Gerald Dawe. Re-tracing the issues and questions of poetry and politics in the Ireland of the 1980s and 1990s, the collection provides energetic and unexpected views of one poet’s critical readings, including the work of several overlooked poets of the time. While offering fascinating insights into the early processes of reimagining the canon of Irish poetry, Northern Windows/Southern Stars is full of thoughtful and telling reports from a very different Ireland at the point of significant transition by the turn of the millennium.
Trade Review«Gerald Dawe is both acute and judicious in dealing with the poet’s role in a politically-tattered society. And even if some of Dawe’s views are mistaken, time will surely pardon him for writing well.» (Neil Powell, PN Review (UK))
Table of ContentsContents: Brief Confrontations – A Gritty Prod Baroque: Tom Paulin – Northern Windows/ Southern Stars – A Question of Imagination – How’s the Poetry Going? – Invocation of Powers: John Montague – Potent Music: Yeats’s Legacy – Critical Mass – The Parochial Idyll: W. R. Rodgers – An Unmoved Mind: John Millington Synge – Our Secret Being: Padraic Fiacc – Breathing Spaces: Brendan Kennelly.
