Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. ABBREVIATIONS ix
5. EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS xii
6. 1. Introduction: The Lie of the Land 1
7. 2. Paradigms and Precursors: Rooted Men and Nomads (John Hewitt, Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice) 21
8. 3. John Montague: Global Regionalist? 53
9. 4. Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon: Omphalos and Diaspora 83
10. 5. Padraic Fiacc and James Simmons 118
11. 6. Michael Longley’s Ecopoetics 137
12. 7. Derek Mahon: ‘An Exile and a Stranger’ 155
13. 8. Tom Paulin: Dwelling without Roots 180
14. 9. Ciaran Carson: The New Urban Poetics 203
15. 10. Medbh McGuckian: The Lyric of Gendered Space 225
16. 11. New Voices (Peter McDonald, Sinead Morrissey, Alan Gillis and Leontia Flynn) 249
17. Select Bibliography 287
18. Index 297