Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Making History?
  • 2. John Hewitt: An Honest Ulsterman's 'Poemosaics'
  • 3. Thomas Kinsella's Poetic of Unease
  • 4. A Failure to Return: John Montague's The Rough Field
  • 5. History Is Only Part of It: Brendan Kennelly's Cromwell
  • 6. 'Reconciliation Under Duress': The Architecture of Seamus Heaney's Recent Poetry
  • 7. Letters from the Alphabet: Carson's and Muldoon's Contingent Poetics.