(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) This single-volume anthology includes nearly 800 poems by more than 50 modern and contemporary Irish poets. Featuring both world-renowned and lesser-known writers, the collection includes poems composed in English as well as translations of poems written originally in Gaelic. The poets represented here range from Austin Clarke and Samuel Beckett, who wrote when Joyce and Yeats were still alive, to Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, who came of age during the sectarian violence of the 1960s, to David Wheatley and Sinead Morrissey, who were born in the 1970s and represent a new generation of Irish writers. Davis provides a general introduction on the history of modern Irish poetry, short essays on each poet, and accompanying notes. Davis is an independent scholar who has written on British and American literature for a range of publications, including the Southwest Review , Parnassus , The Wall Street Journal , and The New York Times .