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New Selected PoemsP.J. Kavanagh10% off eBook (EPUB)
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Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, British
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (167 pages) (Pub. May 2014) 9781847772527 £12.95 £11.65 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. May 2014) 9781847775412 £12.95 £11.65 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
In his foreword to this book, Derek Mahon notes that P.J. Kavanagh’s poems ‘elude the obvious categories. He has never been one of a “school”’. A poet of rural England, yet of Irish ancestry, Kavanagh ‘has always stood slightly apart’. He championed the poems of Ivor Gurney and shares with Gurney not only a personal landscape (that of Gloucestershire) but a poetic commitment to the actual and specific, to nature writing at its most rootedly precise. His is, in Mahon’s words, ‘a unique personal record’: ‘a lifetime’s dedication has produced its rich results’.
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 Charge Sun 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 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 Fulham They 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 syllabics 1. 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
Praise for P.J. Kavanagh
'To hear the truth so devastatingly and yet so joyfully encountered is rare in an age where autobiography has been flattened by the massed weight of political and public reminiscence. This autobiography, from its beginning to its bitter end, is a celebration of joy: joy in youth, in woman, in male camaraderie, in the struggle of art, in married love.'
Times Literary Supplement 'There is plenty of quietly glittering intellect in these poems... he has an eye for rural things, birds, plants, weather; all are subdued to the colour of his own mind, its knowledge of loss, its recurrent perception of the world as a place to which it belongs and does not belong... this collection amply demonstrates Kavanagh's distinguished place among contemporary poets.' Frank Kermode 'There is plenty of quietly glittering intellect in these poems... he has an eye for rural things, birds, plants, weather; all are subdued to the colour of his own mind, its knowledge of loss, its recurrent perception of the world as a place to which it belongs and does not belong... this collection amply demonstrates Kavanagh's distinguished place among contemporary poets.' Frank Kermode
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