David Marcus, ed., Irish Poets 1924-1974 (Pan Books 1975).

Bibliographical details: David Marcus, ed., Irish Poets 1924-1974 (London: Pan Books 1975).

Selection of work by Padraic Fiacc; Alfred Allen; Anthony Cronin; Jerome Kiely; Patrick Galvin; Pearse Hutchinson; Richard Kell; Richard Murphy; Thomas Kinsella; Basil Payne; Thomas Kinsella; Donal Murphy; Christy Brown; Richard Weber; James Simmons; James Liddy; Desmond O’Grady; Brendan Kennelly; Sydney Bernard Smith; Conleth Ellis; Seamus Heaney; Michael Longley; Seamus Deane; Michael Hartnett; Derek Mahon; Eilean Ní Chuilleanain; Michael Smith; Augustus Young; Eavan Boland; Tom Matthews; Richard Ran; Paul Murra; Frank Ormsby; Ciaran Carson; Liam Murphy; Paul Muldoon; William Peskett. Lists editions at front, and adds that some poems selected have appeared in papers and periodicals including Atlantis, Irish Independent, Irish Press (New Irish Writing); Irish Times; The Listener; Poetry Ireland [1st ser.]
[ See also Marcus, ed., The Bodley Head Book of Irish Short Stories (London 1980) - attached.

Note: The full scope of David Marcus’s contribution to Irish culture in his New Irish Writing column at the Irish Press and collections formed gleanings from it in more than 30 consecutive anthologies - the first dated 1970 and containing 128 pages which became the norm - is too extensive to undertake here. The contents of the following anthologies made by Marcus are given on the biography page - as supra. [BS Feb. 2024.]


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