{"product_id":"selected-poems-patrick-kavanagh-9781943667024","title":"Selected Poems   Patrick Kavanagh","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll Kavanagh's gifts are on display, as Paul Muldoon writes in his introduction to this new selection of 40 poems spanning 30 years of Patrick Kavanagh's career. In truth, these gifts were hard-won, from his earliest self-taught verses after leaving primary school at the age of 13, to his refusal of sanitized pastoral depictions of rural Ireland while living among Dublin's literary elite, to his transcendent later poems written in the wake of an operation to remove one of his lungs after a cancer diagnosis. Throughout his life, Patrick Kavanagh would carve out a place for himself as one of Ireland's most important poets with what Muldoon calls the documentarian's eye and ear for the everyday technical term. Gathered here are among his best and best-known poems, beginning with some of his earliest publications in 1930 and continuing chronologically into the 1960s with essentials from his career, as well as highlights left unpublished during his lifetime. The Great Hunger, often considered his major achievement, is presented as a centerpiece alongside Lough Derg, a poem of nearly equal length and possibly equal, though unrecognized, importance. Paul Muldoon presents his selection with a characteristically deft introduction, weaving biographical details into new ways of looking at Kavanagh's life and lasting legacy of finding a star-lovely art \/ In a dark sod.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A beacon of clarity and conciseness by which so many of the rest of us will continue to steer.” —Paul Muldoon, from the introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Indispensable... a book that should jolt readers back to an awareness of this poet's place in the twentieth-century pantheon.\" —Seamus Heaney on Patrick Kavanagh's \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2005)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by Paul Muldoon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePloughman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo a Late Poplar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTinker's Wife\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInniskeen Road: July Evening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hired Boy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShancoduff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoplar Memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePursuit of an Ideal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMemory of My Father\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo the Man After the Harrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpraying the Potatoes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStony Grey Soil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Christmas Childhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArt McCooey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Long Garden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Great Hunger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLough Derg\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePegasus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMemory of Brother Michael\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBluebells for Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTemptation in Harvest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Memory of My Mother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Raglan Road\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKerr's Ass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWho Killed James Joyce?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInnocence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Looking into E. V. Reiu's Homer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Had a Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf Ever You Go to Dublin Town\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Reading a Book on Common Wild Flowers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hospital\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctober\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCome Dance with Kitty Stobling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanal Bank Walk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterary Adventures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wake Forest University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516236194135,"sku":"9781943667024","price":14.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/selected-poems-patrick-kavanagh-9781943667024","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}