The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse by Thomas Kinsella

The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse by Thomas Kinsella

The Irish poetic tradition is generally not considered as a unity. Verse written in Irish, especially from the early and medieval periods, is felt to be the preserve of linguists and specialists, and Anglo-Irish poetry is usually seen as an adjunct to the English tradition. This new anthology approaches the whole of the Irish tradition and presents a relationship between two major bodies of poetry that reflects a shared and painful history. To this end the editor has newly translated a significant selection of poems from the early centuries through to the present day so as to include - in this dual context - some of the great riches of Irish verse.

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	9780192118684
ISBN 10	0192118684
Title	The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
Author	Thomas Kinsella
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1986-05-01
Number of pages	454
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