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Autore |
Kavanagh P. J. |
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Titolo |
New selected poems / / P.J. Kavanagh ; [with a foreword by Derek Mahon] |
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Manchester : , : Carcanet, , 2014 |
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1-84777-541-1 |
1-84777-543-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Poetry, Modern |
English poetry |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Derek Mahon; from One and One (1959); Dedication Poem; Djakarta; Yeats's Tower; Intimations of Unreality; Merton Garden; Beggar at the Villa d'Este; from On the Way to the Depot (1967); Saint Tropez; The Spring; August by the River; Westwell, Oxfordshire; On the Way to the Depot; Afternoon in Sneem; The Temperance Billiards Rooms; In the Rubber Dinghy; Perfection Isn't Like a Perfect Story; Not Being a Man of Action; Satire I; Goldie sapiens; May; No One; from About Time (1970); One: Son and Father; Seven: from 'Albert Poems' |
Nine: 'Domesticities'Ten: Father and Son; from Edward Thomas in Heaven (1974); Occasional Birds; Sometimes; Commuter; For Bruno; Eclogue; All I Want; Real Sky; A Box of Sons; November the First; Child's Walk; Driving Back; Opened and Fastened; Picture a Father; And Light Fading; The Clapham Elephants; Edward Thomas in Heaven; Consolations; from Life Before Death (1979); Dome; A Hard Setting; While the Sun Shines; Where You Watching Are; A Single Tree; Don't Forget the Keeper, Sir; A Great Gale, 1976; Breakfast in Italy; Ivor Gurney; The Dead; Simile; Gardening; Beyond Decoration |
The Moon in ChargeSun Overcast; Elder; Dandelion; Pilgrims; Borris House, Co. Carlow; For C.E.K.; Spring Arrival; Thank-You Letter; Praying; Seal; Illness; Memory; from Presences (1987); Birth of Middle |
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Age; Walmer Castle; A Small World; Late Acknowledgement; Farmworker; Ars est celare artem; Politics; Birthday Visit; Prayer in Middle Age; Constitutional; Nature Poet; 1. Voices; 2. The Attempt; 3. One Sentence, and Another; 4. Companions; 5. A Clean Sensation; from An Enchantment (1991); A ghost replies; The old notebook; Autumn; Memorial service; No more songs; January evening |
Blackbird in FulhamThey lift their heads; Minimal prayer suggestion; Natural history; Hope; Falklands, 1982; Whitsun; Resistance; ITMA; In the middle of the wood; The belt; Quieter than Clichy; Inishmaine; Severn aisling; Message; from Something About (2004); Slow as grass; The new man; November; Angels; Tug o' war; A gottle o' Guinness; Mood indigo, tune Irish; After Westwell; 'Constancy to an ideal object'; Ascension window at Fairford; Whitsun; Vox pop; Small voice; Seasonals; 1. 'Summer...'; 2. 'Combine-harvesters...'; 3. 'Rain...'; 4. 'Later, pale-faced hogweed...'; What I didn't say to Thomas |
Two syllabics1. Christmas walk; 2. Test Match Special; For Kate; Three score and ten; Gold; Dawns; London Bridge; Job; Something about; Index of Titles; Index of First Lines |
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Drawing on the work of 45 years, starting with his debut collection, One and One, this collection of P. J. Kavanagh poems demonstrates his understanding of how contradictions coexist in nature and in us. Out of that vexed coexistence he makes poetry that, formally poised, packs the punch of revelation. Kavanagh has done so much to revive interest in British nature writing, and has contributed so much to it himself, nowhere more so than in his poetry. Internationally acclaimed Irish poet Derek Mahon provides an illuminating foreword, to se |
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