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One Wide Expanse (Hardcover)
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One Wide Expanse (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R536
Discovery Miles 5 360
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One Wide Expanse is the first volume in The Poet's Chair series,
which will publish the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of
Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998
following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus
Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast, Trinity
College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of
Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion. The
next two volumes will contain the lectures of Harry Clifton and
Paula Meehan. This series follows on from the publication of the
lectures of John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan in
The Poet's Chair, published in 2008. In this volume, the
distinguished Irish poet Michael Longley - whose poetry has
transcended political and cultural boundaries throughout his career
- reflects on what has influenced his craft. Longley opens with an
'autobiography in poetry' where he recounts the poets and poems
that have influenced him as both a reader and writer of poetry. He
discusses his intimate relationship with Derek Mahon and Seamus
Heaney along with other poets from around the world.The second
lecture explores how influential the classical literatures of
Greece and Rome have been on English poetry, highlighting how he
has used these literatures in his own work, often to portray the
Troubles in his native Northern Ireland. Longley closes with a very
personal discussion of the influence that the west of Ireland has
had on his poetry, his life, and his 'spiritual education'. The
poet's love of nature and the environment shines through and
extracts from his poems portray his deep understanding of the West.
This illuminating volume gives readers a rare insight into the
creative process of one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets who
was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007 to 2010.
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