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'You Have To Love Them Enough To Let Them Be Wild' shortlisted for 2017 Montreal Poetry Prize and published in Global Poetry Anthology
Paul Painting Paul: Self-Portraiture and Subjectivity in Durcan’s Poetry
In a significant number of Paul Durcan’s poems, a ‘character’ named Paul Durcan makes an appearance. Part autobiographical trace, part fictionalconstruct, what does this enigmatic persona have to say about authorship,subjectivity and the potential for self-portraiture via poetic form? This articleexamines the multiple implications of Durcan’s apparent self-inscription in light of Barthes’s notion of the death of the author, Foucault’s author function, and Durcan’s own perception of the poetry collection as a verbal picture gallery
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