Collected Poems 1986-2006 (Oxford Poets) - Softcover

Delanty, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903039827 ISBN 13: 9781903039823

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

This volume brings together twenty years of the acclaimed Irish poet's work. Each of Greg Delanty's six books so far published is an entity in itself, a single-seeming movement. Bringing the books together in a single volume, juxtaposing them as it were, reveals the enormous resourcefulness and wit of this unusual poet who keenly interweaves material and themes drawn from his reading, writing and living (there is no real line between them). Marriage, childbirth, friendship, landscapes Irish and Indian and American, real and imagined, politics, the personal and private and the public...we are organised as a word and a line and a stanza are made from a tray of type, as in a tapestry the unseen sewing happens and holds, as in growth a foetus evolves into a child. Things fall apart, too, and there is pattern and method in that process as well. The poems draw on a rich inheritance from the different worlds that Delanty moves in: Ireland and America, Gaelic and English, traditional verse forms and modern colloquial. Past and future, their people and places, inform and interpret one another.

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Review:

"The central preoccupation of this book is different kinds of emigration, immigration, exile, and nationality. These are poems which wish people well. Greg Delanty as a poet not only asks to be trusted . . . but he also gives trust . . . " Christopher Ricks, professor, Oxford University"

About the Author:

Greg Delanty was born in Cork, Ireland in 1958, and now lives for most of the year in America, where he teaches at St Michael's College, Vermont. His earlier books include Cast in the Fire (1986), Southward (1992), American Wake (1995) and - available from OxfordPoets - The Hellbox (1998). He was awarded the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry award in 1996 and won the National Poetry Competition in 1999.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1903039827
• ISBN 13: 9781903039823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244