This work reshapes our understanding of contemporary Irish poetry and offers a new account of poetic form.

Introduction; 1. Refashioning Irish poetry, 1966¿1974; 2. Triangular Muldoon; 3. McGuckian's histories; 4. Carson's city; 5. Ní Dhomhnaill along the spine; 6. Conclusion: 'recent Irish poetry'.

Eric Falci is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses on contemporary Irish literature, modern British literature and modern poetry. He has published essays on the poetry of Paul Meehan, the concept of place in contemporary British and Irish poetry, the publishing practices of contemporary Irish and Scottish-Gaelic poets, and on the work of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.