The series brings together scholarly work on modern and contemporary poetry. As well as examining the sometimes neglected art of recent poetry, this series also sets modern poetry in the context of poetic history and in the context of other literary and artistic disciplines. The series aims to provide a platform for the full range of scholarly work on modern poetry, including work with an intercultural or interdisciplinary methodology.

This book explores the influence of sacramental belief on the works of three Roman Catholic poets: nineteenth-century Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh artist David Jones and Australian poet Les Murray. The author argues that these poets endeavour to enclose the ‘open mystery’ of the Divine while knowing it cannot be imprisoned.

This is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish language writer Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, exploring issues of translating and contextualising her work, her revisions of Irish myth, folklore and political and religious iconography, her re-imagining of the mother figure, and the devices of death, silence and psychoanalytic discourse in her poems.