Wake Forest University Press

The revised, expanded edition of the original groundbreaking anthology. With seven new poets in addition to the original nine.

October, 2011

ISBN978-1-930630-58-1   paperback   $19.95

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 Irish language poet Maire Mhac an tSaoi. Edited with an introduction by Jefferson Holdridge.

January 2010
$17.95   ISBN 978-1-930630-47-5

Praise for the first volume in the Series:"Wake Forest ... has always been a pioneer--almost the pioneer--in introducing new irish poetry to American readers. it will be interesting to see which poets from ireland's standing army the press decides to present next." Poetry Ireland Review

October 2008   300 pages
paperback
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.
 

2005   232 pages   
paperback
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

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

1997 392 page
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Bilingual; selected and translated by Michael Bishop

"Few such anthologies exist." Choice