When parents die: John Montague and Paul Durcan's poetics of loss and recovery
When parents die: John Montague and Paul Durcan's poetics of loss and recovery
The article compares and contrasts John Montague's The Dead Kingdom (1984) and the poems in Paul Durcan's Daddy, Daddy (1990) in which they write of the loss of a parent. It examines the individual anxieties and needs the poets are seeking to resolve and their distinctive poetic strategies for managing loss and delivering themselves from its impact.
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Sloan, Barry
4192a9d4-0959-4e09-b22a-e98c0436da24
2011
Sloan, Barry
4192a9d4-0959-4e09-b22a-e98c0436da24
Sloan, Barry
(2011)
When parents die: John Montague and Paul Durcan's poetics of loss and recovery.
New Hibernia Review, 15 (4), Winter Issue, .
(doi:10.1353/nhr.2011.0046).
Abstract
The article compares and contrasts John Montague's The Dead Kingdom (1984) and the poems in Paul Durcan's Daddy, Daddy (1990) in which they write of the loss of a parent. It examines the individual anxieties and needs the poets are seeking to resolve and their distinctive poetic strategies for managing loss and delivering themselves from its impact.
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Published date: 2011
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