THE NEW NORTH
Selected and edited by Chris Agee

The New North anthology of Northern Irish poetry answers two major questions: how did the two great generations—with their huge international influence, exemplified by Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon—emerge from such a small place? And what is the future direction of Irish poetry in Northern Ireland?

Young Northern Irish poets have reasons for continuing to make political claims in their work, but even for them other subjects are beginning to become equally pressing. These are transitional times, and poets will be there to record the transition, feeling troubled, perhaps even strangely nostalgic for the days when poetry was so politically charged and morally challenged, but with anticipation for the license the future offers.

Poetry from Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson, Paul Muldoon, Medbh McGuckian, and Michael Longley, and from Jean Bleakney, Chris Agee, Moyra Donaldson, Gary Allen, Damien Smyth, Andy White, Matt Kirkham, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, Frank Sewell, Paul Grattan, Sinéad Morrissey, Alan Gillis, Leontia Flynn, and Nick Laird.

$19.95 paperback   ISBN 978-1-930630- 35-2
Autumn, 2008

The anthology is part of the NEA’s International Literary Exchange, which funds U.S.-based literary presses to publish and promote contemporary literary anthologies in translation. It will have a companion volume, New Voices, an anthology of American poetry, edited by H.L. Hix, which will be published in Northern Ireland.