Locating Women's Poetry

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course will look at the work of contemporary women poets through the mediating prisms of gender, national, regional and linguistic identities. It will locate their work in relation to the traditional canon and examine the poetic strategies used by these diverse poets. Poets studied will include Eavan Boland, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Maedhbh McGuckian, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Moya Cannon, Vona Groarke, Paula Meehan, Dorothy Molloy, Collette Bryce and Martina Evans.