Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry

Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index.; Avail. in cloth.; Represented in North America by Syracuse University Press. Publisher Marketing: Irish poetry is among the most vibrant language cultures in the world. A decade on from the landmark anthology Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry (Poetry Ireland, 1999), Flowing, Still reissues the ten introductory essays from that book-by some of the best-known figures in contemporary Irish poetry, among them Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Eavan Boland and Ciaran Carson-adding a number of extended essays which bring the book up to the present day. This new volume aims to provide students and general readers alike with an affordable single-volume introduction to Irish poetry since 1900-in the words of some of its finest living practitioners. Contributor Bio:  Boran, Pat Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise, Ireland in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin where he is Programme Director of the Dublin Writers Festival. In recent years he has been Dublin City Writer-in-Residence, and has held residencies at Dublin City University and with Dublin City Libraries. A frequent contributor to books and arts programmes on RTE Radio 1, he presents the RTE Radio 1 poetry programme, The Enchanted Way. He has conducted writing workshops throughout Ireland, and a revised and expanded edition of his popular writers' handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop, originally published in 1999, will be reissued this year. Contributor Bio:  Heaney, Seamus Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995; he teaches regularly at Harvard University and lives in Dublin.