The Second Voyage
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The Second Voyage by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
This book is the Selected Poems of one of Ireland's finest writers. Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's award-winning books have been published and much acclaimed in Ireland and America. Co-published with the Gallery Press, The Second Voyage introduced her work to English readers, drawing on her first three collections. The poems are taken from Acts and Monuments (1972), Site of Ambush (1975) and The Rose Geranium (1981).
Her poems are studded with objects which take on a life of their ownPeople are shadows, intruders on a canvas depicting still life. -- Sean Dunne * Poets of Munster *
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's dreamlike world is haunting, alien, full of awe. * Eire-Ireland *
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's dreamlike world is haunting, alien, full of awe. * Eire-Ireland *
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain was born in Cork City in 1942, educated there and at Oxford before spending her working life as an academic in Trinity College, Dublin. She was a founder member of Cyphers, a literary journal. She has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for Poetry, the O'Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute which called her among the very best poets of her generation, and the International Griffin Poetry Prize. Her collections include Acts and Monuments (1972, winner of the 1973 Patrick Kavanagh Award), Site of Ambush (1975), The Second Voyage (1977, 1986), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989) which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, The Brazen Serpent (1994), The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001), Selected Poems (2008), The Sun-fish (2009, winner of the 2010 Griffin International Poetry Prize and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Legend of the Walled-up Wife (translations from the Romanian of Ileana Malancioiu, 2011), The Boys of Bluehill (2015) and The Mother House (2019) winner of the 2020 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Eilean Ni Chuilleanain is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emerita) at Trinity College, Dublin and a member of Aosdana. She served as Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-2019. She was married to Macdara Woods, who died in 2018.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781852240165 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852240164 |
| Titre | The Second Voyage |
| Auteur | Eilean Ni Chuilleanain |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Année de publication | 1986-11-20 |
| Nombre de pages | 72 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |