Making Integral: Critical essays on Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy’s poetry is central to the evolution of Irish poetry since 1950. These original essays offer new insights into Murphy’s poetic preoccupations - love and loss, nature and solitude, history and inheritance - showing how Richard Murphy’s life and work follow the contours of modern Ireland. With the publication of The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952–2012 (2013) and the reissue of his celebrated memoir The Kick (Cork UP, 2017), this is a timely reconsideration of an important Irish po...