The Japanese Effect in Contemporary Irish Poetry provides a stimulating, original and lively analysis of the Irish-Japanese literary connection from the early 1960s to 2006. While for
some this may partly remain Oscar Wilde's 'mode of style', this book will show that there is more of Japan in the work of contemporary Irish poets than 'a tinkling of china/ and tea into
china.' Drawing on unpublished new sources, Irene De Angelis includes poets from a broad range of cultural backgrounds with richly varied styles: Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson and
Paul Muldoon, together with younger poets such as Sin矇ad Morrissey and Joseph Woods. Including close readings of selected poems, this is an indispensable companion for all those interested in
the broader historical and cultural research on the effect of oriental literature in modernist and postmodernist Irish poetry.
