Lucy Collins: Place, Memory, and the Irish Poet

The relationship between private pasts and public histories has been a shaping force on modern and contemporary Irish poets, and it remains an important concern, especially for women poets.This talk will explore how memory functions, particularly in representations of place and belonging.

 

Lucy Collins is an authority on modern Irish poetry, and her book Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement will be published in 2015. She has published an edition of the Irish writer Sheila Wingfield's poems. She has also edited an essay collection entitled Aberration in Modern Poetry and an anthology, Poetry by Women in Ireland 1870-1970. With Andrew Carpenter, she has edited The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics. 

 

Lucy Collins earned her PhD at Trinity College Dublin, and she teaches in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin. She writes on a wide range of topics beyond poetry, including gender issues, ecocriticism, genetic criticism, and the history of the book.