Last Poems brings together the poems from Thomas Kinsella's five
final Peppercanister pamphlets, originally collected as Late Poems
(2013), along with a selection of new poems, fragments and revised
work which the poet completed before his death in December 2021. An
iconic figure in Irish literature, Thomas Kinsella was one of the
great poets of the last century: his poems' concern with elemental
questions, and a poetics which could be equal to them, is evident
here in poems drawn from student publications, in his
characteristically meditative sequences and in glittering late
fragments. His work was compared to Joyce's by the New York Times
for 'its sense of place [and] quest for coherence and meaning in a
dark and precarious world': throughout, the poems face up to
pressing concerns, age and mortality, the savage waste of war, the
opposing ways in which religion and science frame the human
predicament, and how the artist may creatively redeem and, in their
work, 'offer the Gift onward'.
General
| Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Thomas Kinsella
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
136 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80017-335-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-80017-335-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781800173354 |
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