The Collected Poems, 1956-94 by Thomas Kinsella

The Collected Poems, 1956-94 by Thomas Kinsella

"The Collected Poems" of the distinguished poet Thomas Kinsella contains virtually all his own poems, written over the past 40 years. The early books, of the 1950s and 1960s, include occasional poems, lyrics, and historical and political sequences. Then follow poems of local and family settings, with a growing mythical and allegorical element. Later comes a more public poetry ("Butcher's Dozen", for instance, on the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry in 1972.) Thomas Kinsella is also well-known for his translations from Irish literature, such as "The Tain" and he has made a continuing, and often controversial, study of Ireland's dual tradition in English and Irish literature.

Thomas Kinsella was born in Inchicore, Ireland, on May 4, 1928, and attended University College Dublin. He went on to work for the Civil Service after that. Kinsella, often regarded as the most experimental of contemporary Irish poets, is credited with introducing worldwide modernist approaches to Irish verse. His first collection, The Starlight Eye (1952), was published by Dolmen Press, and he assisted with the typesetting. He has also translated a number of works into Irish, including the Old Irish epic An Tain Bo Cuailgne, which was released as An Tain (1969) and An DuanairePoems of the Dispossessed (1981).

He established the Peppercanister Press in 1972 to publish Butcher's Dozen, a pamphlet poem created in response to the British government's findings on the Bloody Sunday events in Northern Ireland. Poems (1956), Another September (1958), Downstream (1962), Butcher's Dozen (1972), Fifteen Dead (1979), The Good Fight (1973), Nightwalker and Other Poems (1968), Letters from the Dead and Other Poems (1973), One and Other Poems (1979), Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 (1979), St Catherine's Clock (1987), Madonna and Otis (1990), Madonna and Otis (19 He published The New Oxford Book of Irish Poetry in 1986. Wake Forest's Collected Poems was published in 2006, followed by a Selected Poems in September 2010.

Two Guggenheim Fellowships and the Denis Devlin Memorial Award (1966, 1969, 1992) are among his honors. For many years, he taught in the United States, and until 1992, he founded and directed the Irish Tradition study program in Dublin. He used to live in County Wicklow, Ireland, but now calls Philadelphia home.

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ISBN 13	9780192825261
ISBN 10	0192825267
Title	The Collected Poems, 1956-94
Author	Thomas Kinsella
Series	Oxford Poets S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	1999-09-01
Number of pages	350
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