A lost pastoral rhythm : the poetry of John Montague -- "The god in the tree" : Seamus Heaney and the pastoral tradition -- "Love poems, elegies: I am losing my place" : Michael Longley's environmental elegies -- Learning the lingua franca of a lost land : Eavan Boland's suburban pastoral -- "In my handkerchief of a garden" : Medbh McGuckian's miniature pastoral retreats -- "When Ireland was still under a spell" : miraculous transformations in the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill -- Conclusion: The future of pastoral.
