This book focuses on the emergence of women poets from the 1980s to the present in both Ireland
and Galicia. Departing from common ground in shared myths and comparable political and social
circumstances each contributor to this volume looks into central aspects of Irish and Galician
identity issues which range from configurations of the nation nature and feminine paradigms
to the poets' elaborations on their own literary practice. The comparative approach followed
shows both that questions raised in one community can find relevant answers in the other and
that reciprocal knowledge helps to disseminate the writers' work - and the criticism of it -
beyond their respective national borders. This collection of essays and interviews also
provides both poets and critics with a mutual space in which to voice their concerns thus
bringing down the barrier that is often raised artificially between these two literary
activities.
