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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787748603321

Autore

Farrell Fiona <1947->

Titolo

The pop-up book of invasions / / Fiona Farrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2008

©2007

ISBN

1-77558-658-8

1-77558-202-7

1-86940-512-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

821.914

821/.914

Soggetti

Ireland Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Poems.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Introduction; The invasion; The Way of the Dishes; Spades; The Book of the Dun Cow; The winner; Blow-in; The little girl; Following cows; Echo; The canoe in the National Museum; Beckett; Lace; Cursing stones; Potatoes; Politics and economics; Tarmac; The Butter Road; Line; The News; The Speckled Book; Gobnait; Genealogy; Sheela-na-gig; The dogs of Ireland; Betting; Gold; Rolling over; Ballad; How I'd take the country; Midden; Waving; Well; The Lonely Planet visits the dead; Rail; Crop; Lissadell; Hunting; The Battler

Poet, Novelist and above all PatriotThe brown bull; Seed; The flood; Road; The long way round; Hair; The Hag of Beare; The Lament of the Nun of Beare; Dance; Bed; The verb 'to be'; Daffodils; Marginalia; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

The Book of Invasions ? Lebor Gabála Érenn ? is a compilation of manuscripts describing the very specific discovery of Ireland (?on the fifteenth, on a Saturday') following the Creation and the Flood. The Pop-Up Book of Invasions is Fiona Farrell's poetic response to a six-month stay in Ireland as inaugural recipient of the Rathcoola Residency in County Cork. Part travelogue, part family record, part song and myth and history rewritten, this collection revels and laments in equal



measure in a landscape deeply inscribed with narrative.  The poems in The Pop-up Book draw heavily and vividly