Voices on the Wind: Women Poets of the Celtic Twilight

The Irish Literary Revival was not only dynamic, democratic and liberal--it was feminist, also, as is shown by the many women poets of the era. Encouraged and admired by contemporaries like Yeats and AE, women such as Katherine Tynan and Eva Gore-Booth were considered among the leading poets of their day. However they have been largely written out of Irish literary history, which reads as if the Literary Revival was--apart from lady Gregory--entirely dominted by male voices.

Featuring work by Katherine Tynan, Susan mitchell, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Ethna Carberry, Eva Gore-Booth, and Nora Hopper Chesson, Voices on the Wind: Women Poets of the Celtic Twilight presents compelling evidence that Irish women's poetry did not just begin in the 1960s. While their poetry often reflects the prevailing themes and styles of the period, these strong, individual voices also explored subjects that were both pioneering and revolutionary in their frank femininity.

Edited and introduced by the acclaimed author and folklorist Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Voices on the Wind: Women poets of the Celtic Twilight fills a critical gap in Irish literary history by reclaiming for us the significany contribution of these poets to their name.