The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry

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Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry

Julia C. Obert

Cloth $34.95s    |    978-0-8156-3400-3    |    2015

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“In Postcolonial Overtures, Julia Obert charts a new and exciting trajectory for thinking about contemporary Northern Irish poetry. In deft, lively readings of Carson, Mahon, and Muldoon, Obert shows how their poetry is catalyzed by the matter and problem of sound—the sounds that poems can make, the sounds represented within them, and the sounds of the world that surround them. . . . beautifully written.”

—Eric Falci, associate professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

“A serious contribution to our understanding of how the acoustics of poetry needs to be incorporated into our reading of Northern Irish poetry. . . . Well-researched and thoughtfully argued.”

—Richard Rankin Russell, professor of English, Baylor University