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The Seasons of Cullen Church
A new collection of expert lyric poems from Bernard O'Donoghue, which movingly animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork.
Poetry: A Very Short Introduction
Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it—it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this—such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', and that poetry is 'a higher truth'. In this Very Short Introduction, Bernard O'Donoghue provides a fascinating look at the many different forms of writing which have been called 'poetry'—from the Greeks to the present day. As well as questioning what poetry is, he asks what poe...
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.
Here Nor There
Bernard O'Donoghue's third collection of poetry is about the middle ground--being in between two places, being neither here nor there. Again he mines the memories of his rural upbringing in County Cork, weaving a series of tender elegies for the characters and places of his youth.
Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'An art that knows its mind' -- 1 English or Irish Lyric? (1960s Heaney) -- 2 Phonetics and Feeling: Wintering Out, North and Field Work (1970s Heaney) -- 3 'The limbo of lost words': The Sweeney Complex -- 4 Beyond the Alphabet: The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things -- 5 Heaney's ars poetica: Mandelstam, Dante and The Government of the Tongue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Tools of the Trade
Being a doctor is a privilege; it is also very demanding and can be stressful, and to be able to look after others, we need to look after ourselves. We offer you this little book of poetry, Tools of the Trade, as a friend to provide inspiration, comfort and support as you begin work. Tools of the Trade includes poems by poet-doctors Iain Bamforth, Rafael Campo, Glenn Colquhoun, Martin MacIntryre and Gael Turnbull.
The Poetry of Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country. From prodigious beginnings to prolific maturity, he has been, through thick and thin, through troubled times and other, a writer profoundly committed to the art of poetry and the craft of making verse. He has also been no-less a committed reviser of his work, believing the poem to be more than a record in verse, but a work of art never finished. This virtuoso study by Hugh Haughton provides the most comprehensive account imaginable of Mahon's oeuvre. Haughton's brilliant writing always serves and illuminates the poetry, yielding extraordinary insights on almost every page. The poetry, its revisions and reception, are the subject here, but so thorough is the approach that what is offered also amounts indirectly to an intellectual biography of the poet and with it an account of Northern Irish poetry vital to our understanding of the times.
Outliving
"Bernard O'Donoghue's magnificent fourth collection of poetry explores its title in a series of beautifully wrought poems whose simple elegance belie their complexity. There are moving elegies for people the poet has outlived. There are poems too about living outside the poet's original environment and the inclination to return there for stories and feelings: the MacNeicean 'tourist in his own country', perpetually restive and perpetually homesick. But most important there is 'outliving' as in 'outdoing', or living a life of higher quality: the drinking of 'red wine outside in the sunlit squares' that is accorded to the less privileged - to building site workers or young soldiers who are cannon-fodder in the world's trouble-spots."
The Weakness
A collection of stories, centering mainly on characters from rural Ireland.
A Responsibility to Awe
Rebecca Elson's A Responsibility to Awe reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Responsibility to Awe is a contemporary classic, a book of poems and reflections by a scientist for whom poetry was a necessary aspect of research, crucial to understanding the world and her place in it, even as, having contracted terminal cancer, she confronted her early death. Rebecca Elson was an astronomer; her work took her to the boundary of the visible and measurable. 'Facts are only as interesting as the possibilities they open up to the imagination,' she wrote. Her poems, like her researches, build imaginative inferences and speculations, setting out from observation, undeterred by knowing how little we can know.
