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In this chapter, the poetry that emerged from the impulse of what Seán Lucy has called “a witness to the anxiety of our times” is examined, highlighting the influence of poets like Patrick Galvin, John Montague, W. B. Yeats and Louis MacNeice but also W. H. Auden, in poems that offer a fierce social criticism of issues on the global and national stage. It illustrates how Thomas McCarthy offers a combative, daring engagement with politics on the national stage in making poems about a political party and its processes. The chapter also highlights the engagement of the some of the poets with what is called ecopoetry.
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Ní Ríordáin, C. (2020). The Grumbling Questioning Poet: Politics and Social Engagement. In: English Language Poets in University College Cork, 1970–1980. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38573-6_5
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