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Collected Poems
Michael Hartnett (1941-1999) had a distinguished and highly respected career in his native Ireland. Even before the publication of his 1968 collection with the Dolmen Press, Anatomy of a Cliche, his poems earned critical esteem and, in time, they were recognized by the Irish Poetry Prize in 1980, a Poetry Ireland Choice in 1987, and awards from the Irish-American Cultural Institute and the American Ireland Fund. He was a member of Ireland's distinguished arts academy, Aosdana. From brief early lyrics to more extended meditations, and including a number of unpublished gems, this collection represents forty years of coruscating art.
A Necklace of Wrens
One of his country's best-loved poets, Irish born Michael Hartnett, died in October '99 in Ireland. He was 58 years old. This collection presents a generous selection of Hartnett's poems in Irish and his own translation of them into English.
Remembering Michael Hartnett
Michael Hartnett is often acknowledged as one of the most under-rated yet influential Irish poets of the last fifty years. This book gathers together an impressive collection of poets, academics and cultural commentators in an attempt to redress this lack of critical attention.
The Blue Rat
The Blue Rat follows the underground investigations of El Buscador as he seeks to expose the plans of a powerful real estate mogul, plans that would forever stain his city.
A Rebel Act
An account of Michael Harnett's decision to write in the Irish language although he was not a native speaker, exploring the influence of his choice on his life, career, and the literary scene of the time.
The Killing of Dreams
In this experimental work, the author risks personifying poems themselves so that they harangue and criticize each other. The Killing of Dreams reveals another facet of a perennially interesting writer.This collection of poems in English displays a surprisingly broad range of subjects and styles. Included is a debate on the nature of poetry itself, a farewell to pastoral, and a long, exotic poem about salvation, 'Mountains, Fall on Us', which brings to mind the author's already celebrated 'The Retreat of Ita Cagney'. --Publisher description.
A Book of Strays
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The Home Place
The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, live at The Lodge in Ballybeg. But in this era of unrest at the dawn of Home Rule, their seemingly serene life is threatened by the arrival of Christopher's English cousin, who unwittingly ignites deep animosity among the villagers of Ballybeg. The Home Place premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in February 2005.
Playing the Octopus
Joint Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018. In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to 'swallow light through his skin', a wolf 'howls the great open vowel of his need', and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, 'a tree-shaped brightness dances'. Over the course of the collection, O'Malley twins the Irish west coast with the American east coast, Inis Mór with Coney Island, the parish with the metropolis, the pipes with the axe, each offering its own comfort and wonder. Sylvia Plath, Lois Lane and Antigone feature in an unlikely cast of heroines through which O'Malley tests the mythologies of motherhood and femininity ('no mother is ever good enough until she's dead', writes the poet, with characteristic wit). Playing the Octopus is a body of writing buoyed by the redemptive power and sustaining joy of music, and it closes with O'Malley's translations of the Irish poet Seán Ó Ríordáin and the Spaniard Federico García Lorca.
