Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon.
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Religion and Identity Politics in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry: The Critical Landscape 2. 'Its flesh was sweet / Like thickened wine': Iconography and Sacramentalism in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney 3. 'A hole / In the cathedral wall': Iconoclasm and Catechism in the Poetry of Michael Longley 4. 'The only way out of 'the tongue-tied profanity'': Calvinism, Rupture and Revision in the Poetry of Derek Mahon Bibliography Index
