Flowing, Still : Irish Poets on Irish Poetry

A decade on from the major anthology Watching the River Flow (Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann, 1999), Dedalus Press reissues the ten introductory essays from that book, by some of the best-known names in contemporary Irish poetry (Eavan Boland, Ciaran Carson, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley, John Montague, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Bernard O’Donoghue and Cathal Ó Searcaigh) bringing the survey up to the present day with the addition of essays by Pat Boran, Theo Dorgan, Eamon Grennan and David Wheatley, as well as an informed outsider's view of the subject by distinguished American poet, now resident in Ireland, Richard Tillinghast.

Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poets is an ideal introduction to the subject of Irish poetry from 1900 to the present, for students and general readers alike.

 

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ABOUT THE EDITOR
PAT BORAN was born in Portlaoise, in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin where he is Editor of the Dedalus Press. Since receiving the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1989, he has published four collections of poetry as well as New and Selected Poems (first published by Salt Publishing in 2005, reisued by Dedalus in 2007). A former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and presenter of The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1 (see the streaming audio archive at the RTÉ website), he has also edited Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler (2006). In 2007 he was elected to the membership of Aosdána and in 2008 he received the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award of the University of St Thomas, St Paul, MN.