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. The ultimate reader's companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from ¿ve centuries with lively "companion" commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. . The editors' selection ranges from Wyatt, Ralegh and Shakespeare in the 16th century, to Donne, Milton and Marvell in the 17th, to Swift, Pope and Johnson in the 18th. It embraces the Romantic visions of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, as well as the later,...

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This selection of Brendan Kennelly's critical writing is as illuminating in what it says about his own ideas and methods as it is about the writers whose work he discusses. The book contains his essays on the major Irish writers of the 20th century.

A new collection of satirical poetry from one of Ireland's most distinguished and best-loved poets. A mischievous meditation on the human condition.

Published on his 75th birthday, this new selection presents just over a hundred of Brendan Kennelly's most essential poems, accompanied by an audio CD of his own readings drawn from two classic recordings.

In a frantic world, the momentary glimpse can spark a sudden flash of insight. This resonating glimpse-caught on the move-ripples through the mind, illuminating past and present, fast-forwarding in a split second to reveal future possibilities. But in an instant it is gone, lost in the bustle of everyday life. In Glimpses, Brendan Kennelly opens his eyes-and ours-to the world and times we rush through without looking. With their quick fire wit...

Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other ways of being in the world.

Addresses the question: What is 'now'? This book takes us on a journey through a dark night of the soul, through the thoughts and feelings of various kinds of people struggling to survive and find meaning in their lives. It focuses on women whose lives are torn apart by war, family conflict and despotic regimes.

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Now is a fast and frenzied meditation on time, ageing, alienation, and the pressures of living in the modern city. Each triplet in this book-length poetry sequence addresses the question: What is "now?" With the brevity of a proverb, each three-liner offers a short, sharp perception which tries to capture or just grasp at the sliding identities of 'now', at the same time as it adds its quickfire nugget of wit or wisdom to the accumulating weig...

Brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies. This work focuses on women whose lives are torn apart by war, family conflict and despotic regimes. It gives living testament of his belief that 'listening to ancient voices can help us confront, understand and express many problems.

Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other ways of being in the world.

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A distillation of Kennelly's epic poem "The Book Of Judas".

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Buffún is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon can't cope. This Cromwell is a cocky tyrant who wants to run a football team, or start a taxi business. Enter the Belly, the IRA, an Irish giant, and Billy of the Boyne: 'William of Orange is polishing pianos / In convents and other delicate territories, / His nose...

This substantial book represents BRENDAN KENNELLY's own selection from over twenty poetry books written over five decades. He has been a poet who has revisited his work, re-scoring familiar and estranged pieces into new gatherings that reflect his preoccupations more powerfully, bringing together poems from different times--and adding many new, previously lost or unpublished ones--so that they speak in chorus like the generations of people the...

This playful poet is alive and kicking. He is a satirist trying to define generosity, happiness and love, with scurrilous candor and piercing clarity in brief punchy poems. But no matter how savage his attacks, he is always playful and compassionate. He is a sharp, visionary writer who knows the world about him and is in touch with the world within himself, at once bewildered, attentive, and bitingly articulate. It's a perfect match--Kennelly ...