Billy,
I'm with you on this: how to take apart the Irish 'place' as codified by Kavanagh & Heaney (among many others), and marketed by the tourist industry, sufficiently at least to make space for alternatives? Apart from Catherine Walsh's explorations and your own, I think Geoff Squires provides another interesting route in his long meditations, deeply informed by late Beckett and Merleau-Ponty.
After having pre-empted Heaney with a treatment of the Buile Suibhne in the 70's, I've just allowed myself a second shot in Trem Neul (Irish phrase, meaning 'through my dreams'), which occupies a mighty hunk of Masthead #4. I doubt if either Heaney or the tourist board will lose much sleep, but sure isn't it all good clean fun?
Cheers,
Trevor
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Billy Mills wrote:
There is, however, a specifically Irish dimension to my interest. I like to play with the conventions of the Old Irish Metrical Dindsenchus, or Lore of Places. This is a vast body of poetry whose group name is self-explanatory.In addition, part of the ambition is to rescue Place from the practices of the Kavanagh/Heaney tradition.
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