Enraptured Space

Gender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan

Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick

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West Virginia University Press
30 April 2025

Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Gender studies: women; Applied ecology

In the first book-length study of Paula Meehan, one of Ireland’s leading contemporary poets emerges as an original voice whose perspectives on gender, class, and ecology are transforming the Irish literary landscape and beyond. Drawing on her own lived experience as a practicing poet, Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick explores how scholarship is grounded in an imaginative exchange between the words on the page and the material conditions of the scholar who works to inhabit them. With chapters of literary analysis swimming in a conversation between two poets, this book breaches the boundaries between criticism and memoir, suggesting ways that every scholar is transformed by the subjects they study.

In Paula Meehan, Kirkpatrick has found a powerful poet to both study and love, and her reading of Meehan’s poetry and prose through the lenses of gender studies, the environmental humanities, and social class offers a passionate endorsement of Meehan’s radical interventions in the canon of Irish poetry. This work explores eight volumes of Meehan’s poetry, including Dharmakaya, Painting Rain, and Geomantic.

By: Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781959000457
ISBN 10: 1959000454
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick is professor of English at Appalachian State University. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems, as well as the editor of Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities and co-editor of Animals in Irish Literature and Culture.

Reviews for Enraptured Space: Gender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan

""A polished, moving, deeply intelligent study of Paula Meehan's poetry, which goes beyond a single poet's life and work to illuminate an entire culture....I am unaware of another seriously academic study of a contemporary poet's work written by another poet."" --Maureen O'Connor, professor, University College Cork and author of Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction