The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty: New Poets from the North of Ireland

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The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty bucks the dominant publication trend of a long look back by focusing on the most recent of timeframes, in the belief that what is happening here, just now, is so special that it deserves a spotlight of its own. Sinéad Morrissey and Stephen Connolly

Northern Ireland is rightly celebrated the world over for its rich poetic heritage and vibrant poetry culture Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Leontia Flynn and Sinéad Morrissey are just a few of the poets from the North who have changed the map of contemporary poetry.

Taking its cue from Frank Ormsby s Poets from the North of Ireland , The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty gathers together the best of the new generation that has emerged in Northern Ireland over the last decade, from more established poets such as Miriam Gamble, Caoilinn Hughes and Stephen Sexton to new voices such as Padraig Regan, Manuela Moser and Emma Must.

The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty is a landmark anthology. Exciting, striking and timely, it announces a generation that is confidently poised to make the future its own.