20th-century Irish poems
By: selected by Michael Longley.
Contributors: Longley, Michael, 1939-
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: English poetry -- Irish authors; English poetry -- 20th century
Other titles: Twentieth century Irish poems.
Description: In a particularly turbulent century that witnessed, among other things, emigration, the 1916 uprising, world wars, the Troubles and the hunger strikes, the shifting perspectives of the poets, reporting on events in close-up or as noises-off, offer a unique commentary from the front line.