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Book SynopsisThree European Poets is part of UCD Press's The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Counci 1/An Chomhairle Ealaion. Other poets in the series include John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Michael Longley, Harry Clifton and Paula Meehan. In his volume of The Poet's Chair Paul Durcan examines the work and impact of Irish poets Anthony Cronin, Michael Hartnett and Harry Clifton and places them in a European context. He focuses on Cronin's The End of the Modern World, Hartnett's Sibelius in Silence and Clifton's Vaucluse in this insightful volume.
Trade Review'Beautifully printed and bound, this substantial series of published lectures pays testament to the rich diversity of contemporary Irish poetry and its criticism. It also offers the opportunity to consider how several important Irish poets have variously gone about the challenge of professing poetry in the public sphere.' Tom Walker, Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2019 ||| 'Collectively these three books could be said to form a self-created imaginative conscience , and should be required reading for every serious student of poetry.' Michael O'Loughlin, The Irish Times, March 2018
Table of ContentsForeword; Cronin's Cantos; Hartnett's Farewell; The Mystery of Harry Clifton; Biographical Note; Acknowledgements; Bibliography
