Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets

Joanna Kruczkowska is Associate Professor in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz, where she specializes in ecocriticism and comparative literature in a socio-political context, focusing particularly on Irish, Polish and modern Greek poetry. She is the author of Irish Poets and Modern Greece: Heaney, Mahon, Cavafy, Seferis (2017).

Landscapes of Irish and Greek Poets juxtaposes two countries on the margins of Europe that display many affinities: Ireland and Greece. It investigates the ways in which contemporary poetry from both countries engages with external and internal landscapes, bringing together essays by poets and scholars, poems in English and Greek and interviews with the Irish poets Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan. The topics explored include travel, nature, suburban areas, cultural and political landscapes, the perception of wilderness and the influence of technology in the digital age. Especially relevant at a time of ecological and social crisis, the correlation of external landscapes with the landscapes of the mind, mediated by poetry, offers a powerful insight into the world in which we live.

This book juxtaposes two countries on the margins of Europe that display many affinities: Ireland and Greece. It investigates how contemporary poetry from both countries engages with external and internal landscapes, bringing together essays by poets and academics, poems in English and Greek and interviews with poets Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan.

CONTENTS: Joanna Kruczkowska: Inner and Outer Landscapes in Irish and Greek Poetry - Yiorgos Chouliaras: Greece, Ireland, Poetry: A Single Topic in Three Words? - Rowena Fowler: Starlight and Electric Light: Seamus Heaney's Greece - Benjamin Keatinge: The Archaeology of Love: Richard Murphy's Greece - Joanna Kruczkowska: Irish Poets on Paros: O'Grady, Mahon, Longley, Brennan - David Ricks: Rus in urbe? Tellos Agras' Scenes - Jerzy Jarniewicz: Green Leaves and Little Boats: Two Female Speakers in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill - Caitríona O'Reilly: «In Wildness is the Preservation of the World»: Thoreau's «Walking» and Some Perspectives on Poetry and Wilderness - Leontia Flynn: Poetry and the Digital Age - Between Ireland and Greece: Interview with Paula Meehan - Temenos, Eurydice, Ithaca: Interview with Theo Dorgan - Irish and Greek Poems - Irish Poetry with Greek Translation.