The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse by Thomas Kinsella

The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse by Thomas Kinsella

The aim of this anthology is to present an entire range of Irish poetry, in both Gaelic and English, to an English-speaking readership. Notes accompanying the poems present the shared history of Anglo-Irish verse and describe the major outlines of Irish poetic culture from its beginnings.

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	9780192826435
ISBN 10	0192826433
Title	The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse
Author	Thomas Kinsella
Series	Oxford Books Of Verse Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1989-07-01
Number of pages	453
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