Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry David Wheatley while other poems speak to

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Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry David Wheatley while other poems speak toA decade on from the major anthology Watching the River Flow (Poetry Ireland igse ireann, 1999), Dedalus Press reissues the ten introductory essays from that book, by some of the best known names in contemporary Irish poetry (Eavan Boland, Ciaran Carson, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley, John Montague, Eilan N Chuilleanin, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Bernard O'Donoghue and Cathal Searcaigh) bringing the survey up to the present day with the