Series: The Poet's Chair

A volume collecting Paul Muldoon's three Ireland Professor of Poetry lectures. Though the three lectures given by Paul Muldoon as Ireland Professor of Poetry focus on three former holders of the chair—John Montague, Michael Longley, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill—they also touch on a dizzying range of topics including David Byrne, Claddagh Records, decapitation, The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, factory...

Poems with a sharp eye for the absurdities and fragilities of history, as well as history's impact on the present. In The World Unmade, Frank Ormsby explores the poetic diversity of Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the poetry of the Troubles. He draws on his own experience as editor of a literary magazine and a number of anthologies....