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Collected PoemsThomas Kinsella10% off Paperback
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Hardback (Pub. Jan 2002) 9781857545746 Out of Stock Paperback (389 pages) (Pub. Oct 2001) 9781857545579 £25.00 £22.50 Hardback (382 pages) (Pub. Oct 2001) 9781857545739 Out of Stock
Wedding Morning
Down the church gravel where the bridal car Gleams at the gate among the waifs and strays And women of Milewater, formal wear And fashion's joker hats wink in the breeze. Past, the hushed progress under sprays of broom And choirs of altar lilies, when all eyes Went brimming with her and the white-lipped groom Brought her to kneel beside him. Past, the sighs; Ahead lies the gaiety of her father's hall Thrown open to the chatter of champagne, The poised photographer, the flying veil, The motors crowded on the squandered lawn. Down the bright gravel stroll the families With Blood, the trader, profiting in their peace. from Downstream (1962) included in Collected PoemsI
Thomas Kinsella stands apart in modern Irish poetry. His work, employing traditional and modernist elements in individual poems and open sequences, deals in a range fo subjects from the most intense and psychic privacy to political satire and social commentary, from love and the enabling feminine to metaphysical speculation in a variety of earthly settings.
Awards won by Thomas Kinsella
Commended, 2007 Poetry Book Society
(Selected Poems)
Praise for Thomas Kinsella
'These are not poems to be read swiftly, relished once and set aside. They are often, for all their music, discomforting. Their uncertainties, questionings and images lure the reader to wonder and return.'
Kathleen Bell, Everybody's Reviewing 'Kinsella's lines are beautifully wrought, the stanzas gently rhymed, and the poet, in masterful style, at once delivers and undercuts the 'rhetoric' of beauty and consolation.' Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times '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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