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Thomas Kinsella is among the most distinguished modern poets. His
work over fifty years has challenged and enriched the poetic
landscape. Rooted in locality, Kinsella's poetry employs myth and
modernism in explorations that range from intense lyricism to
political satire and social commentary. This representative
selection of the poetry he has published from 1956 to 2006 invites
readers to explore the range of his poetic world.
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Last Poems (Paperback)
Thomas Kinsella
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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'.
Honouring the Word is a tribute book compiled to mark the 80th
birthday of poet Maurice Harmon. In addition to being a poet,
Maurice Harmon is the leading scholar-critic of his generation in
the field of Anglo-Irish Literature. He pioneered its development
as an academic discipline and is the author of a number of
significant works, from bibliographical guides to headline studies
of Sean O Faolain, Austin Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, and others.
Thomas Kinsella stands apart in modern Irish poetry. His work,
employing traditional and modernist elements in individual poems
and open sequences, deals in a range of subjects from the most
intense and psychic privacy to political satire and social
commentary, from love and the enabling feminine to metaphysical
speculation in a variety of earthly settings. Kinsella is a city
poet. Born in Dublin in 1928, he attended University College, and
entered the Irish Civil Service, but resigned from the Department
of Finance in 1965 for a career in poetry in the United States. He
published from the beginning with the Dolmen Press, later
co-publishing his poetry and translations with Oxford University
Press. His translations from the Irish include the Iron-Age prose
epic "The Tain" and "Poems of the Dispossessed: 1600-1900". He is
editor of the "New Oxford Book of Irish Verse".
To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration
in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet proudly publish a new edition of
Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville
Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's House of Commons
apology, and a new author's note.
The Táin Bó Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a giant cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cuailnge. Thomas Kinsella's translation is the first attempt to present a 'living version' of the story, complete and unbowdlerized. It is based on the partial texts in two medieval manuscripts, and includes a group of related stories which prepare for the action of the Táin. There are 31 brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy, and three maps.
This magnificent anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection begins in pre-Christian times and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century verse. Poets featured include Swift, Goldsmith, W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.
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