Wake Forest University Press

The second volume in a series of anthologies introducing necessary and unique voices to North American readers. Poetry by Sean Lysaght, Moya Cannon, Thomas McCarthy, John F. Deane, and Maire Mhac an tSaoi. Available in late autumn 2009. Price will be $17.95

1999   314 pages  
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Selected and edited by Peggy O'Brien

"Beautifully produced by Wake Forest University Press, with useful explanatory and biographical notes, this collection is now the single best introduction to the kind of writing that is shaping, and being shaped by, the new Ireland. It is at once reasonably comprehensive, enlighteningly delightful, and at times deeply disturbing."    Kieran Quinlan, World Literature Today

2005   232 pages   
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Edited and with an introduction by Jefferson Holdridge

"A superb introduction to contemporary Irish poetry..." Wisconsin Bookwatch

Poetry by Harry Clifton, Dennis O'Driscoll, David Wheatley, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O'Reilly

1997 392 page
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Bilingual; selected and translated by Michael Bishop

"Few such anthologies exist." Choice

October 2008   300 pages
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Selected and with an introduction by Chris Agee

"Wake Forest University Press continues its impressive dedication to Irish poetry ... with The New North: Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland. ...[T]he poems and poets offer an insightful, lyrical look into the psyche of 21st-century Northern Ireland." Irish America Magazine, Feb./March2009

This groundbreaking anthology introduces readers to the surprising new voices of 15 younger poets, who “are much more likely to be interested in new technology, ecology, Eastern Europe or bilingualism, than in any expected manifestation of ‘the Northern issue’ … It is indeed the poetry of a new North.” (Chris Agee, from the Introduction). Produced in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts.