Irish Experimental Poetry

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent books are Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2019) and Beckett’s Thing: Theatre and Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

• AbstractsNotes on ContributorsTrevor JoyceMichael Smith: A Brief TributeMichael SmithTranslation & Reality: A Letter to the Poet Trevor JoyceDavid LloydIntroduction: On Irish Experimental PoetryFrancis Hutton-Williams Against Irish Modernism: Towards an Analysis of Experimental Irish Poetry Geoffrey Squires Modernism, Empiricism, and RationalismJ.C.C. MaysThe Third WalkerAlex DavisPaper & Place: The Poetry of Billy MillsClaire BrackenNomadic Ethics: Gender and Class in Catherine Walsh’s City WestKit FryattThe Poetics of Elegy in Maurice Scully’s HummingRomana Huk‘Out Past / Self-Dramatization’: Maurice Scully’s Several DancesNiamh O’Mahony‘Releasing the Chaos of Energies’: Communicating the Concurrences in Trevor Joyce’s Appropriative PoemsMarthine SatrisCodex Vitae: The Material Poetics of Randolph Healy’s ‘Arbor Vitae’Kenneth KeatingRepetition and Alterity: Geoffrey Squires’s ‘texts for screen’James Cummins‘The history of Ireland he knew before he went to school’: The Irish Tom Raworth Rachel WarrinerImage and Witness in Maggie O’Sullivan’s A Natural History in 3 Incomplete Parts and POINT.BLANK.RANGE PoetryMaurice ScullyKey DanceTrevor JoyceThe Stone MasterFergal GaynorThe OctagonSarah HaydenUntitled PoemsBilly MillsThe City ItselfCatherine Walshbarbaric additions