“A thing breaks beyond naming”: a review article on David Lloyd’s 2022 books, Counterpoetics of Modernity and The Harm Fields Counterpoetics of Modernity: on Irish poetry and modernism , by David Lloyd, Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP, 2022, 232 pp., £71.29 (hardback), ISBN 9781474489805 The Harm Fields: poems , by David Lloyd, Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 2022, 76 pp., £17.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780820362625

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Some readers might also consider the final piece, an Afterword on Catherine Walsh, as part of this.2. It looks for example at Celan’s poem for Luxemburg (82) which is compared to the Yeats poems.3. May he rest in peace. Maurice Scully passed away suddenly and recently, on March 5, 2023 in Spain. The Irish Times obituary: https://www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2023/03/25/maurice-scully-obituary-gifted-dublin-born-poet-with-a-playful-experimental-style/4. An acutely interesting reference here given Yeats’ dates: the painting The Enigma of Arrival and the Afternoon was completed by Giorgio de Chirico in 1912 and most certainly regards the Saidian theme, so important to Lloyd’s poems, of exile.5. Said, “The Mind of Winter.”