Stuart:
here's a list to start you off -
the middle generation:
Brian Coffey: Poems & Versions 1929-1990
(Dedalus Press, Dublin - this is available here)
Denis Devlin: Collected Poems
(Dedalus Press, Dublin - available here if still in print.
Otherwise Wake Forest UP does the US edition).
Thomas MacGreevy: Collected Poems
(New Writers' Press, Dublin. May be out of print).
the younger generation(s):
Trevor Joyce; with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold. A Body
of Work 1966-2000.
(New Writers' Press, Dublin; Shearsman Books, Exeter) £9.95 in the UK.
Randolph Healy: Green 532. Selected Poems 1983-2000
(Salt Publishing, Cambridge - this is just out) £8.95
Billy Mills: Five Easy Pieces
(Shearsman Books) £4.50
Geoffrey Squires: Landscape & Silences
(New Writers' Press)
Maurice Scully: 5 Freedoms of Movement (Etruscan, £7.50)
ditto : Steps (Reality Street Editions,£6.50)
ditto : The Basic Colours (Pig Press, £6.95 if still in print)
Catherine Walsh: Pitch (Pig Press, £5.95 if in print)
ditto: idir eatortha (Invisible Books, London - unsure of price)
Go to Randolph Healy's Wild Honey Press ( http://www.wildhoneypress.com
) for a good list of chapbooks not mentioned above, and also Billy
Mills & Catherine Walsh's hardPressed poetry
( http://gofree.indigo.ie/~hpp/frame.html ) for some volumes that are
otherwise hard to obtain, especially by the two poets who run the show.
The only anthology that covers a decent number of these people is Keith
Tuma's recent Anthology of Twentieth Century British & Irish Poetry
(Oxford UP, New York).
Useful critical books I've found are:
John Goodby: Irish Poetry Since 1950 (Manchester UP)
Alex Davis & Patricia Coughlan (eds): Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry
of the 1930s
(Cork UP)
Alex Davis: Denis Devlin and Irish Poetic Modernism
(covers also the younger generation mentioned above)
(University College Dublin Press)
Donal Moriarty: The Art of Brian Coffey
(University College Dublin Press)
UCB books are available through an online seller, whose name I can't
remember but you can get there via the press ( http://www.ucdpress.ie )
Happy hunting! Contact me b/c if I can help further.
Tony Frazer
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 06:16 pm, Stuart Allen wrote:
> hello
>
> i've been lurking on this list for a while, and it's now time to break
> my silence. it's an exciting moment for me, but there's also a quiet
> tenderness.
>
> anyhow, i'm teaching a course on irish lit next january and am loading
> the first half heavily with modernists. but after beckett i get a bit
> stuck. i was wondering if anyone could suggest any 'neo-modernist'
> writers (or at least writers that build on the innovations of
> joyce/beckett) - otherwise it'll be a disappointing slide to roddy
> doyle and heaney.
>
> i'll be very grateful for any ideas
>
> many thanks
>
> stuart allen
>
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