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This Selected provides an overview of Trevor Joyce's multifaceted
poetic career and covers some 45 years of work. The books appears
simultaneously with the first major scholarly volume devoted to his
work.
Poetry. Shearsman published Trevor Joyce's collected poems, WITH
THE FIRST DREAM OF FIRE THEY HUNT THE COLD, to great acclaim in
2001 (and a second edition of the book in 2003), and this volume
extracts his remarkable translation of the epic Sweeny Peregrine
from that volume and offers it together with a large group of other
versions from the Old and Middle Irish, thus offering Anglophone
readers a glimpse of some very unusual verse that rarely sees the
light of day outside academic volumes, while also transposing it
into a form that will seem familiar to readers of Joyce's own work.
This extraordinary collection brings together the entirety of his
work up0 to 2003 that Trevor Joyce wishes to preserve. Founder of
the seminal New Writers' Press in Dublin, Joyce is Ireland's most
stimulating late-modernist poet, unrepentantly engaging the global
modernist tradition at a time when it would seem to many that Irish
writers, whether in the Republic or the orphaned north, prefer to
hunker down and be parochial. The book includes the early
collections Sole Glum Trek, Watches and Pentahedron and the
splendid re-working of of the Buile Suibhne epic The Poems of
Sweeny Peregrine, as well as the later masterworks Stone Floods and
Syzygy, the former nominated for the 1995 Irish Times Literary
Award for Poetry, the latter a formal tour-de-force previously only
available as a limited edition chapbook. The volume concludes with
more recent uncollected work of great power and ambition. This is
the second edition, in a slightly larger format, of a book first
published in 2001 with the ISBN 0-907562-29-9.
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