Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry

by Clair Wills

This is an innovative and accessible study of contemporary Northern Irish poetry in the light of current debates about post-modernism, poetry and politics, and the figure of woman in Irish political discourse. Close readings of the work of Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, and Paul Muldoon focus on
the "improper" elements of the the refusal of a sense of home, the disruption of "traditional" poetic form, and the sexual narratives related.

270 pages, Hardcover

First published January 6, 1994