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Dr. Tom Walker
Associate Professor in Irish Writing, English

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and the Limits of Portraiture in, editor(s)Charles I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson and Tom Walker , The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2024

Nicholas Grene, Derek Mahon: A Retrospective, First, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024, 1 - 355pp Book, 2024

Charles, I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson, Tom Walker, The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024 Book, 2024

Colum's Revivalist Poetics amid the Institutions of Modernism in, editor(s)Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan , The Writings of Padraic Colum: 'That Queer Thing Genius', 2024, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2024

Towards the New Atlantic: Mahon's Early Politics in, editor(s)Nicholas Grene and Tom Walker , Derek Mahon: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2024

Nicholas Grene and Tom Walker, Derek Mahon: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024 Book, 2024

Tom Walker, W. B. Yeats, George Moore and the Abject Impressionist Self, Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures, 1, (2), 2023 Journal Article, 2023

Modernist Accommodations in, editor(s)Lauren Arrington and Matthew Campbell , Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp429 - 444, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2023

Tom Walker, 'Things, Thoughts, and Walter Pater in "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen"', International Yeats Studies, 4, (1), 2020, p73 - 79 Journal Article, 2020

'"home rule in our literature": Irish-British Poetic Relations at Mid-Century' in, editor(s)Eve Patten , Irish Literature in Transition, 1940-1980, Cambridge University Press, 2020, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2020

'Richard Murphy: Radio Poet' in, editor(s)Benjamin Keatinge , Making Integral: Critical Essays on Richard Murphy, Cork, Cork University Press, 2019, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2019

'"the lonely flight of Mind": W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice and the Metaphysical Poetry of Dodds's Scholarship' in, editor(s)Stephen Harrison, Christopher Pelling and Christopher Stray , Rediscovering E.R. Dodds: Scholarship, Poetry and the Paranormal, Oxford University Press, 2019, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2019

Collaborative Poetics, special issue of Modernist Cultures , 14, 1, (2019), Alex Runchman and Tom Walker, [eds.] Journal, 2019

Alex Runchman and Tom Walker, 'Introduction: Modernism's Collaborative Poetics', Modernist Cultures Special Issue: Collaborative Poetics, 2019 Journal Article, 2019

'"fine contrary excess": Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Thomas's Northern Irish Afterlives' in, editor(s)Edward Allen , Reading Dylan Thomas, Edinburgh University Press, 2018, pp215 - 232, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2018

'"something in the making": The Troubles and the Singularity of Northern Irish Literature' in, editor(s)Peter Herman , Terrorism and Literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp303 - 319, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2018

Tom Walker, 'The Culture of Art in 1880s Ireland and the Genealogy of Irish Modernism', Irish Studies Review, 26, (3), 2018, p304 - 317 Journal Article, 2018

'"an inconstant stay": Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and the Ends of Shakespeare's Sonnets' in, editor(s)Nicholas Taylor-Collins and Stanley van der Ziel , Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp49 - 70, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2018

'X: A Quarterly Review and McGahern's modernism' in, editor(s)Zeljka Doljanin and Máire Doyle , John McGahern: Authority and Vision, Manchester University Press, 2017, pp9 - 24, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2017

'"our more profound Pre-Raphaelitism": W.B. Yeats, Aestheticism and Blast' in, editor(s)Philip Coleman, Kathryn Milligan and Nathan O'Donnell , Blast at 100: A Modernist Magazine Reconsidered, Brill, 2017, pp79 - 92, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2017

'Patrick Kavanagh' in, editor(s)Gerry Dawe , The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp141 - 152, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2017

Tom Walker, 'The Pornographer and McGahern's Allusive Practice', Irish University Review, 47, (2), 2017, p281 - 297 Journal Article, 2017

'Nine Rivers from Jordan: Denis Johnston's European Journey and Irish Search' in, editor(s)Dorothea Depner and Guy Woodward , Irish Culture and Wartime Europe, 1938-48, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2015, pp161 - 173, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2015

Tom Walker, Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015 Book, 2015

'"A true story": The Third Policeman and the Writing of Terror' in, editor(s)Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan and Werner Huber , Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies, Cork , Cork University Press, 2014, pp126 - 142, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2014

'Derek Mahon', The Literary Encyclopedia, 2013, [Tom Walker] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013 URL

'Louis MacNeice among his Irish Contemporaries, 1939 and 1945' in, editor(s)Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis , The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, pp196 - 209, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2012

Tom Walker, 'MacNeice's Byzantium: The Ghosts of Yeats and Eliot in The Burning Perch', The Review of English Studies, 62, (257), 2011, p785 - 804 Journal Article, 2011

'Yeats's MacNeice' in, editor(s)Ellen McWilliams and Brian Griffin , Irish Studies in Britain: New Perspectives on History and Literature, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp160 - 173, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2010

'Austin Clarke' in, editor(s)Jay Parini , British Writers Supplement XV, Scribners, 2009, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2009

Tom Walker, 'Some Variant Dates of Composition for Louis MacNeice's Poems', Notes & Queries , 56, (3), 2009, p427 - 428 Journal Article, 2009

Tom Walker, '"Even a still life is alive": Visual Art and Bloomsbury Aesthetics in the Early Poetry of Louis MacNeice', The Cambridge Quarterly , 38, (3), 2009, p196 - 213 Journal Article, 2009

Tom Walker, 'The West of Ireland in John McGahern's Amongst Women and Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy', Beyond Philology , 4, 2007, p193 - 203 Journal Article, 2007

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Tom Walker, The Later Yeats and the Irish Poetic Movement?, Yeats Nobel Dinner Symposium, Dublin, 2024 Conference Paper, 2024

Tom Walker, The society painter who wanted to reshape Irish art, Review of More Power To You: Sarah Purser: A Force for Irish Art, Apollo:: The International Art Magazine, 2024 Review, 2024

Tom Walker, Irish Poetry in Transatlantic Modernist Magazines, especially Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Irish Poetry in Transatlantic Modernist Magazines, especially Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, KU Leuven, 2024, 2024 Conference Paper, 2024

Tom Walker, W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice and India, Modernism, India and the Colonial Gaze Conference, University of Delhi, 2024, 2024 Invited Talk, 2024

Tom Walker, Learning to be Modern: Yeats, Asian Culture and the Spectres of Partition, Irish Cultures in Contact, Flensburg, 2024 Conference Paper, 2024

Tom Walker, Romancing Romance: William Morris, Early Yeats and the Religion of Art, Yeats and Elevation: The Nobel Prize Centenary Conference, Stockholm University, 2023, 2023 Conference Paper, 2023

Tom Walker, Stage presence " the theatrical paintings of John Lavery, Review of Lavery. On Location (, Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2023 Review, 2023

Tom Walker, Stage presence " the theatrical paintings of John Lavery, Review of `Lavery. On Location", by National Gallery of Ireland , Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2023 Review, 2023

Tom Walker, The haunted paintings of Patricia Hurl, Review of Exhibition: PATRICIA HURL IRISH GOTHIC (IMMA), Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2023 Review, 2023

Tom Walker, Aesthetic Culture, Portraiture and Revolutionary Ireland, EFACIS Phd Seminar, Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, August 2022, 2022 Invited Talk, 2022

Tom Walker, Histories Galore: Irish Literary Studies in the Age of Platform Publishing, English Shared Futures Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, July 2022, 2022 Conference Paper, 2022

Tom Walker, Review of Ireland's Gramophones: Material Culture, Memory and Trauma in Irish Modernism, by Zan Cammack , Estudios Irlandeses, (17), 2022 Review, 2022

Tom Walker, `Colum"s Revivalist Poetics amid the Institutions of Modernism", IASIL, University of Limerick, July 2022, 2022 Conference Paper, 2022

Tom Walker, Review of The Letters of Denis Devlin., by Sarah Bennett (ed.) , 51, (1), 2021 Review, 2021

Tom Walker, George Moore and W.B. Yeats's Impressionist Portraits, First Impressions: The Impact of Impressionism on English Literature, University of Bristol, 2021, 2021 Conference Paper, 2021

Tom Walker, Yeats's Arthuriana: Aestheticism and its English Discontents, Yeats and English, University of York, December 2021, 2021 Conference Paper, 2021

Tom Walker, All Aboard, Review of Exhibition - Jack B. Yeats: Painting and Memory (NGI), Apollo: The International Art Magazine, (October), 2021 Review, 2021

Tom Walker, Towards the New Atlantis: Reassessing Mahon"s Early Politics, Derek Mahon: A Celebration, Trinity College Dublin, November 2021, 2021 Conference Paper, 2021

Tom Walker, Review of A history of Irish modernism , by Gregory Castle and Patrick Bixby , Irish Studies Review, 28, (1), 2020, p143-145 Review, 2020

'Leeds Zaria Coleraine: A prehistory of The Honest Ulsterman' in, editor(s)Gregory McCartney , A Magazine of Revolution?: An Exploration of The Honest Ulsterman , Belfast, Honest Ulsterman, 2020, pp148 - 155, [Tom Walker] Book Chapter, 2020

Tom Walker, Review of Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination, by Colin Parr , Irish University Review, 2019 Review, 2019

Tom Walker, Before the Savage God: Yeats and French Symbolist Painting in the 1890s, "Yeats and Eros" / "Yeats and Paris", Sorbonne nouvelle University, Paris, 2019 Conference Paper, 2019

Tom Walker, Review of 'Brian O'Doherty Language and Space', IMMA, Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2018 Review, 2018

Tom Walker, Review of 'Mary Swanzy: Voyages', IMMA, Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2018 Review, 2018

Tom Walker, '"an inconstant stay": Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and the Ends of Shakespeare's Sonnets', International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Radbound University, Nijmegen, 2018, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

Tom Walker, 'Augusta Gregory's Italy and the Irish Literary Renaissance', American Conference for Irish Studies, University College Cork, 2018, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

Tom Walker, Review of 'Roderic O'Conor and the Moderns: Between Paris and Pont-Aven', National Gallery of Ireland, Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2018 Review, 2018

Tom Walker, Review of Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War , by Elizabeth Prettejohn , Apollo: The International Art Magazine, (September), 2017 Review, 2017

Tom Walker, Review of Margaret Clarke exhibition, NGI, Apollo: The International Art Magazine, (August), 2017 Review, 2017

Tom Walker, Review of Wilhelmina Geddes: Life and Work, by Nicola Gordan Bowe , Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2016 Review, 2016

Tom Walker, Review of Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War, by Guy Woodward , Britain and the World, 9, (2), 2016 Review, 2016

Tom Walker, Derek Mahon, 2015, - Miscellaneous, 2015

Tom Walker, Review of Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801 - 1924 , by Matthew Campbell , Irish Studies Review, 23, (4), 2015 Review, 2015

Tom Walker, 'What A Dark Sea!', Review of Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays, by ed. Amanda Wrigley and S. J. Harrison , The Cambridge Quarterly, 43, (2), 2014 Review, 2014

Tom Walker, Review of The Yeats Circle: Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880-1939 , by Karen Brown , Yeats Annual, 19, 2013 Review, 2013

Tom Walker, Review of Art in Ireland Since 1910, by Fionna Barber , Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2013 Review, 2013

Tom Walker, Review of W. B. Yeats and George Yeats: The Letters, by ed. Ann Saddlemyer , Irish Studies Review, 20, (3), 2012 Review, 2012

Tom Walker, Review of Yeats's Poetic Codes , by Nicholas Grene , Notes and Queries, 58, (3), 2011 Review, 2011

Tom Walker, 'So Little and So Much', Review of Love of the World: Essays,, by John McGahern (ed. Stanley van der Ziel) , The Cambridge Quarterly , 39, (3), 2010 Review, 2010

Tom Walker, Review of Louis MacNeice and the Poetry of the 1930s, by Richard Danson Brown , Irish Studies Review 18.1 (2010)., 18, (1), 2010 Review, 2010

Tom Walker, Review of Irish Periodical Culture, 1937-1972: Genre in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, by Malcolm Ballin , Irish Studies Review, 17, (3), 2009 Review, 2009

Tom Walker, Review of Paul Muldoon. Poetry, Prose, Drama: A Collection of Essays , by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, ed., , Notes and Queries, 56, (1), 2009 Review, 2009

Tom Walker, Review of Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator , by . Ashby Bland Crowder and Jason David Hall, eds , Notes and Queries, 56, (2), 2009 Review, 2009

Tom Walker, '"To set the darkness echoing": Poetic Allusion', The English Review, 19, (3), 2009 Journal Article, 2009

Tom Walker, 'Creature Comforts', Review of On Sympathy , by Sophie Ratcliffe , The Cambridge Quarterly , 38, (1), 2009 Review, 2009

Tom Walker, Review of Yeats, The Master of Sound: An Investigation of the Technical and Aural Achievements of William Butler Yeats , by Brian Devine , Notes and Queries, 55, (4), 2008 Review, 2008

Tom Walker, Review of The Proper Word: Collected Criticism - Ireland, Poetry, Politics, by Gerry Dawe (ed. Nicholas Allen) , Irish Studies Review, 16, (3), 2008 Review, 2008

Tom Walker, 'Same War, Different Story', Review of Tim Kendall, ed., The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry and Clair Wills, That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War , by Tim Kendall, Clair Wills , The Cambridge Quarterly, 37, (3), 2008 Review, 2008

Tom Walker, Review of Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats , by Margaret Mills Harper , Notes and Queries, 55, (3), 2008 Review, 2008

Tom Walker, 'How Does Your Garden Grown', Review of The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972, by Heather Clark , The Cambridge Quarterly, 36, (4), 2007 Review, 2007

Recognition

Awards and Honours

Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies 2015

IRC New Horizons' Research Project Grant - One Starter Grant 2015