Abstract

The article compares and contrasts John Montague's The Dead Kingdom (1984) and the poems in Paul Durcan's Daddy, Daddy (1990) in which they write of the loss of a parent. It examines the individual anxieties and needs the poets are seeking to resolve and their distinctive poetic strategies for managing loss and delivering themselves from its impact.

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