Peppercanister poems, 1972-1978 - Softcover

Kinsella, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916390098 ISBN 13: 9780916390099

Publisher: Wake Forest University Press, 1979

Synopsis

The eight sections in this volume were issued separately in Ireland in limited editions from the Thomas Kinsella s Peppercanister Press. The first four Peppercanister poems are occasional poems written in 1972 and 1973: Butcher s Dozenresponds to the report of the Widgery Tribunal of Inquiry into the shooting of thirteen Civil Rights demonstrators by the British army in Derry on January 30th, 1972;A Selected LifeandVertical Manelegize the composer Sean O Riada, who died in October 1971; andThe Good Fightcommemorates the tenth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The poet comments on these poems in an Afterword to the volume. The final sections appeared simultaneously in 1978: Song of the Night and Other Poems, a set of occasional poems touching in different ways on the theme of sex, andThe Messenger, a poem written in memory of the poet s father."

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Kinsella was born on May 4, 1928 in Inchicore, Dublin, and graduated from University College Dublin. He subsequently took a position in the Civil Service. Considered to be the most experimental of the contemporary Irish poets, Kinsella is credited with bringing the techniques of international modernism to Irish verse. He published his first collection, The Starlight Eye (1952), with Dolmen Press, helping to set the type himself. He has also translated extensively from Irish, most notably the Old Irish epic An Tain Bo Cuailgne, published as An Tain (1969) and An DuanairePoems of the Dispossessed (1981). In 1972, he founded the Peppercanister Press to publish Butcher s Dozen, a pamphlet poem written in response to the British government s findings on Northern Ireland s Bloody Sunday events. Thomas Kinsella s many volumes of poetry include Poems (1956), Another September (1958), Downstream (1962), Butcher s Dozen (1972), Fifteen Dead (1979), The Good Fight (1973), Nightwalker and Other Poems (1968), Notes from the Dead and Other Poems (1973), One and Other Poems (1979), Peppercanister Poems 19721978 (1979), St Catherine s Clock (1987), Poems From City Centre (1990), and Madonna and Other Poems (1991). In 1986 he edited The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse. Wake Forest published his Collected Poems in 2006, and a Selected Poems in September 2010. His awards include two Guggenheim Fellowships and the Denis Devlin Memorial Award (1966, 1969, 1992). He taught in the US for many years and initiated and administered the Irish Tradition study program in Dublin until 1992. He long lived in County Wicklow, Ireland, but currently lives in Philadelphia."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0916390098
• ISBN 13: 9780916390099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159