Fran Brearton & Michael Longley 
Incorrigibly Plural 
Louis MacNeice and His Legacy

Incorrigibly Plural celebrates the diversity and vitality of Louis Mac Neice’s writing. Poets and critics illuminate the work of a writer whose achievement and influence is increasingly recognised as central to modern poetry in English. Contributions include responses to Mac Neice by poets such as Paul Farley, Leontia Flynn, Nick Laird, Derek Mahon, Glyn Maxwell and Paul Muldoon; discussions by critics such as Neil Corcoran, Valentine Cunningham, Hugh Haughton, Peter Mc Donald and Clair Wills; and more biographical accounts, including a memoir by Mac Neice’s son, the late Dan Mac Neice. For each of them, Mac Neice remains a continuing presence for his insight into the mechanisms of the modern world, his complex political awareness, his ability to bring the historical moment alive. Above all, what emerges is pleasure in Mac Neice’s plurality of language and forms. More than a retrospective work of criticism, Incorrigibly Plural belongs to live debates about contemporary poetry.