Apathy Is Out: Selected Poems - Ni Ceadmhach Neamhshuim: Rogha Danta (English, Irish, Paperback, Bilingual 'facing page' edition)

Sean O Riordain (1916-77) was the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish literature with that of modern English and European literature, thus adding to the Irish tradition from the other side. His poems 'seek to answer fundamental questions about the nature of human existence and the place of the individual in a universe without meaning' (Gearoid Denvir). Many of O Riordain's poems came out of his struggle with the isolation, guilt and loneliness of life in mid-century Catholic Ireland experienced in Cork, the native locale also of the poet Greg Delanty, translator of Apathy Is Out. O Riordain's poems have been translated by many poets, but until now no single writer has translated the majority of the poems. This collection gives a much more unified sense of O Riordain's work, catching the poetry's verve, playfulness and range and also 'the music you still hear in Munster,/even in places where it has gone under'. It includes the dark, sorrowful poems O Riordain has usually represented with in anthologies but also poems of exuberance and celebration, notably 'Tulyar', one of the funniest satirical critiques of the Irish Church's attitude to sex which matches any similar attack by Patrick Kavanagh or Austin Clarke. Sean O Riordain renewed poetry in Irish by writing out of the modernist sense of alienation, fragmentation and identity, but he also saw beyond Modernism's confines to the connective matrix of our world.

General

Imprint:	Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Sean O Riordain
Translators:	Greg Delanty
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
Edition:	Bilingual 'facing page' edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-78037-536-6
Languages:	English • Irish
Subtitles:	Irish
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78037-536-0
Barcode:	9781780375366

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