A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and hi

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, d

An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.