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The beach, the foreshore, the estuary, and the indeterminate spaces between land and sea shape contemporary literature in ways that speak to our concerns for climate change, political uncertainty, and the future. I have written a book about these ideas in context of Irish literature from the late nineteenth century to the present, tracing the fluid shapes of empire, partition, and independence in the work of writers from William Butler Yeats to Anne Enright.  In this conversation, I will share some readings from Seamus Heaney, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Michael Longley, Moya Cannon, and others, in context of contemporary thinking about water and coasts, with a view to showing how these artists’ liquid arts have their own aesthetic, and political, histories.

The lecture will take place on April 29th, 2021, at 16.15, on Zoom. To sign up, please send an email to gudrun.jakupsstovu(at)ens.unibe.ch. Please feel free to circulate the attached poster among friends and colleagues that might be interested in the topic.