“An inherited magical act”: collaboration in the work of contemporary Irish women poets
Abstract
Critic Patricia Boyle Haberstroh writes, “The newest direction we can chart in recent poetry is the acknowledgment of links between women poets, as contemporary poets pay tribute to those who preceded them” (Haberstroh 1996: 197). This article meditates on these “links” by addressing collaboration in the work of contemporary Irish women poets. First, it investigates theories of the nature of collaboration, specifically female collaboration; it locates the existence of an Irish female poetic tradition; and it briefly discusses the work of Irish poets Mary O’Malley and Eva Bourke.
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