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Late PoemsThomas Kinsella![]() 10% off
Categories: 21st Century, Irish
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (144 pages) (Pub. Oct 2013) 9781847772435 £9.95 £8.96
Tenants in Common
A hiss from near my heel. A slither up out of the shallows. And my old opposite breathed out of the branches in my path. ‘I had been hoping for this. To solve our joint requirements: you, needing my nothingness to quieten your fevers; I needing the pulse of life for my inertia. We were made for each other. Misplaced here together, who knows for how long more; neither asking to take part; both hoping for the unexpected to improve matters; knowing it is unlikely. I have decided, therefore, to make as much of things as I can.’ The thin leathery lips approached my neck. This book collects the poems of Thomas Kinsella from his five most recent Peppercanister pamphlets. As he has throughout his writing, here Kinsella sets himself, clear-eyed, to face hard truths: ‘the waste and the excess’ of the living process; ageing and emptiness; the cancer of war. But against these are the creatively redeeming impulses – of the search for understanding: ‘an imagination arguing with itself / until the ache is eased’; above all, of ‘Grace as desire… Joy of the flesh / Saying all it can of love.’
Marginal Economy (2006) Wandering alone First Night The Affair Wedding Service Blood of the Innocent Marcus Aurelius Songs of Exile Marginal Economy Songs of Understanding Rhetoric of Natural Beauty Man of War (2007) Argument Retrospect A Proposal Notes 1. An Insect Analogue 2. By the Dead Sea 3. A Sleeping Cancer 4. The War Horse 5. Instances from the Greek Belief and Unbelief (2007) Novice Delirium Superfresh Echo Art Object Belief and Unbelief Legendary Figures, in Old Age Lost Cause Ceremony Foetus of Saint Augustine Genesis Prayer I Prayer II Addendum Fat Master (2011) Elderly Craftsman at his Bench Into Thy Hands The Last Round: an allegory The Guardians Summer Evening: City Centre She continued Reflection Free Fall Fat Master Love Joy Peace (2011) Reserved Table Anatomy Colloquy of the Carnal Flesh Eater The Next Part of the Prayer Tenants in Common Love Joy Peace
Awards won by Thomas Kinsella
Commended, 2007 Poetry Book Society
(Selected Poems)
'The most complex and multi-layered of the Peppercanister poems...taken with the 1968 and 1973 volumes and some of the earlier poems may comprise the most challenging, most achieved, and therefore most rewarding body of poetry from the British Isles over the past half-century.'
The Cambridge History of Irish Literature 'With unique memorability and force these poems, in the words of 'Belief and Unbelief', coax us to follow their author in search of understanding 'back to the dark / and the depths that I came from'. No one who cares about poetry should hesitate to embark on the journey.' The Guardian
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