... Michael Longley Irish poetry Poetic form The Troubles Celtic Tiger Lyric One feature of Irish poetry and of the preponderance of the criticism it has spawned makes it singular among contemporary anglophone poetries: its resolutely anti-theoretical, not to say anti-intellectual bias. Where rigorous...

... the distinctions between the lyrical and musical, as well as physical and metaphysical, spaces they frame. In ‘The Black Box’, Paterson’s most extended exploration of poetic form, the human capacity for organisation is given shape through a series of oscillations between poetic and musical lexicons (Light...

... Scully Theodor Adorno Jean-Luc Nancy Lyric Proceduralism Poetic form The book is fat, contains code. The world, the water planet. The code contained in this thing in the world, the book, changes the things, the world. ¹ Livelihood challenges reading. Like any...