Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry

Wit Pietrzak is a Professor of British and Irish Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Poland. His main areas of interest are modernist and contemporary Anglophone poetry as well as theory and philosophy of literature. He has published The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats (2017), and numerous essays on contemporary British and Irish poetry.

• Introduction: Preservation of the Other in Contemporary Irish Poetry.- Chapter 1. Between Detection and Deception: Paul Muldoon’s Why Brownlee Left. - Chapter 2. Framing Potentiality: Vona Groarke’s Four Sides Full and X.- Chapter 3. ‘Lady Other, Lady Mine’: Freedom of the Materialist self in Sinéad Morrissey’s Parallax.- Chapter 4. Poetry as Endurance: Caitríona O’Reilly’s Geis. - Chapter 5. “Flurred and Flummoxed but Unbleared”: The restoration of the self and the experience of language in Alan Gillis’s Scapegoat.- Chapter 6. ‘The Miraculous Flesh’ of the Everyday Giants: Nick Laird’s Go Giants.