Conor Carville Boeken

Armagh born poet Conor Carville's debut collection of poems is an astonishingly confident and accomplished one, formally assured and always surprising and inventive. The poems move back and forth in time and across the world to listen to accounts of harm and the means through which it has been resisted or overcome. The voices of St. Patrick's sister, of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Kandinsky, Walter Benjamin, an 18th century mariner and a wheelie-bin are just some of those that appear in poems that probe the limits of historical memory and measure the reverberations of violence both psychic and political. Memories of childhood and youth in Northern Ireland merge with reflections on the globalized present in a book that is as varied in its music and form as it is moving and incisive in its content.

Focusing on contemporary Irish cultural criticism since the mid-1980s, this book critically examines key theoretical developments in the field. It integrates insights from various notable critics to propose a new theory regarding the representation of subjectivity in Irish literature. This exploration sheds light on the evolving landscape of Irish writing and its cultural implications.

Samuel Beckett's 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It demonstrates Beckett's exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood, and shows how his work anticipates the development of video and installation art.

Moving fluently between art history, philosophy, literary analysis and historical context, Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts rethinks the trajectory of Beckett's career, and reorients his relationship to modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the most important writer of the twentieth century.

Sometimes lyric, sometimes violent, Conor Carville's second collection of poetry teems with the martyrdoms, both everyday and epic, that punctuate our lives. Many of the poems reassert the capacity of song to grasp the shape of a life, a community, or a world, in the shadow of its vast disorder.