Poets of modern Ireland : text, context, intertext /

Preface
Acknowledgements
Architectures of Yeats: perspectives on The Winding Stair p. 1
The blessings of Onan: Austin Clarke's 'Mnemosyne Lay in Dust' p. 18
Makeshift monologue: the poetry of Padraic Fallon p. 34
Keeping the colours new: Louis MacNeice in the contemporary poetry of Northern Ireland p. 56
Strange letters: reading and writing in contemporary Northern Irish poetry p. 77
Examples of Heaney p. 95
A languorous cutting edge: Muldoon versus Heaney? p. 121
Resident alien: America in the poetry of Derek Mahon p. 137
To stop the bleeding: the poetry of botany in Michael Longley p. 156
One step forward, two steps back: Ciaran Carson's The Irish for No p. 177
Notes p. 198
Bibliography of Secondary Material p. 211
Index p. 216