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Queer Poetry

Fryatt, Kit orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9683-3730 (2024) Queer Poetry. In: Fogarty, Anne and O'Brien, Eugene, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing. Routledge, New York, pp. 199-212. ISBN 9781032304960

Abstract
This chapter explores poetry by Irish LGBTQ+ writers in the twenty-first century, beginning with an overview of the socio-cultural background, followed by case studies of three poets, Stephen Mooney, Sarah Clancy and Padraig Regan, and concluding with some reflections on directions for future research. I examine Stephen Mooney’s DCLP (2008) as a document of the queer gaze in the wake of UK anti-terrorist legislation of the early 2000s, and its submerged discourse of LGBTQ+ Irish migration to London. Sarah Clancy’s collections of the 2010s are considered as a response to the financial crisis, 2007-8, in which queerness modifies the economic figurations of poetry under a regime of austerity. Conceptions of form and beauty in post-Romantic artistic theory are the starting-point for a discussion of Padraig Regan’s queer renovation of the Irish lyric in Some Integrity (2022). Finally, I suggest that, as these become increasingly visible, attention be directed at intersections between queerness and other minoritised identities in Irish poetry.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Humanities > Literature
Humanities > English literature
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of English
Publisher:Routledge
Official URL:https://doras.dcu.ie/32244/1/Fryatt%20Kit%20Chapte...
Copyright Information:Author
ID Code:32244
Deposited On:03 Feb 2026 11:45 by Kit Fryatt . Last Modified 03 Feb 2026 11:45
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