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Patrick Kavanagh : selected poems / Patrick Kavanagh ; edited by Antoinette Quinn.

By: Kavanagh, Patrick, 1904-1967.
Contributor(s): Quinn, Antoinette.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Penguin, 1996Description: xliii, 204 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0140184856.Subject(s): English poetry -- Irish authors -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 823.912
Contents:
Poems -- Address to an Old Wooden Gate -- Pygmalion -- Ploughman -- After May -- Tinker's Wife -- Inniskeen Road: July Evening -- Sanctity -- The Hired Boy -- Shancoduff -- Poplar Memory -- Plough-Horses -- Snail -- Memory of my father -- To the man after the Harrow -- Spraying the Potatoes -- Stony Grey Soil -- A Christmas Childhood -- Art McCooey -- The Long Garden -- The Great Hunger -- Lough Derg -- Advent -- Consider the Grass Growing -- Peace -- Threshing Morning -- A Wreath for Tom Moore's Statue -- Pegasus -- Memory of Brother Michael -- Bluebells for Love -- Temptation in Harvest -- Father Mat -- In memory of my Mother -- On Raglan Road -- No Social Conscience -- The Paddiad -- Spring Day -- Ante-Natal Dream -- Bank Holiday -- Irish Poets Open Your Eyes -- To be Dead -- Kerr's Ass -- Who killed James Joyce? -- Auditors In -- Innocence -- Epic -- On looking into E. V. Rieu's Homer -- God in Woman -- I had a Future -- Wet Evening in April -- A Ballad -- Having Confessed -- If ever you go to Dublin Town -- After Forty years of age -- The Rowley Mile -- Cyrano de Bergerac -- Intimate Parnassus -- On Reading a Book on Common Wild Flowers -- Narcissus and the Women -- Irish Stew -- Prelude -- Nineteen Fifty-Four -- The Hospital -- Leaves of Grass -- October -- Requiem for a Mill -- Birth -- Question to life -- Come dance with Kitty Stobling -- Is -- To Hell with Commonsense -- Canal Bank Walk -- Dear Folks -- Song at Fifty -- Freedom -- Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin -- The Self-Slaved -- The One -- Yellow Vestment -- Love in a Meadow -- Miss Universe -- Winter -- Living in the Country -- News Item -- Mermaid Tavern -- Literary Adventures -- That Garage -- The Same Again -- Thank You, Thank You -- In Blinking Blankness: Three efforts -- One Wet Summer -- An Insult -- Personal Problem.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 823.912 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00070049
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of modern Irish poetry from post-colonial poet Patrick Kavanagh, 1904-67, which focuses on common and banal aspects of contemporary life. First published in 1992.

Bibliography: (pages xliii-xliv) and index.

Poems -- Address to an Old Wooden Gate -- Pygmalion -- Ploughman -- After May -- Tinker's Wife -- Inniskeen Road: July Evening -- Sanctity -- The Hired Boy -- Shancoduff -- Poplar Memory -- Plough-Horses -- Snail -- Memory of my father -- To the man after the Harrow -- Spraying the Potatoes -- Stony Grey Soil -- A Christmas Childhood -- Art McCooey -- The Long Garden -- The Great Hunger -- Lough Derg -- Advent -- Consider the Grass Growing -- Peace -- Threshing Morning -- A Wreath for Tom Moore's Statue -- Pegasus -- Memory of Brother Michael -- Bluebells for Love -- Temptation in Harvest -- Father Mat -- In memory of my Mother -- On Raglan Road -- No Social Conscience -- The Paddiad -- Spring Day -- Ante-Natal Dream -- Bank Holiday -- Irish Poets Open Your Eyes -- To be Dead -- Kerr's Ass -- Who killed James Joyce? -- Auditors In -- Innocence -- Epic -- On looking into E. V. Rieu's Homer -- God in Woman -- I had a Future -- Wet Evening in April -- A Ballad -- Having Confessed -- If ever you go to Dublin Town -- After Forty years of age -- The Rowley Mile -- Cyrano de Bergerac -- Intimate Parnassus -- On Reading a Book on Common Wild Flowers -- Narcissus and the Women -- Irish Stew -- Prelude -- Nineteen Fifty-Four -- The Hospital -- Leaves of Grass -- October -- Requiem for a Mill -- Birth -- Question to life -- Come dance with Kitty Stobling -- Is -- To Hell with Commonsense -- Canal Bank Walk -- Dear Folks -- Song at Fifty -- Freedom -- Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin -- The Self-Slaved -- The One -- Yellow Vestment -- Love in a Meadow -- Miss Universe -- Winter -- Living in the Country -- News Item -- Mermaid Tavern -- Literary Adventures -- That Garage -- The Same Again -- Thank You, Thank You -- In Blinking Blankness: Three efforts -- One Wet Summer -- An Insult -- Personal Problem.