Paul Muldoon: Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry [1986]

Taking the death of Yeats as its starting point and ending at the present day, The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry offers unusually generous selections from the work of ten writers - Patrick Kavanagh, Louis Mac Niece, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Durcan, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian - the most consistently impressive Irish poets after Yeats.The editor, Paul Muldoon, is the author of seven collections of poems and an opera libretto, Shining Brow. He is widely regarded as the leading Irish poet of his generation.