Poems 1956-1986 by James Simmons

Poems 1956-1986 by James Simmons

Irish poet and singer James Simmons has been much praised for his 'atrocious honesty' (Irish Times), for being 'humane, entertaining, honest' (TLS) and 'tender, sensual, totally unromantic and totally honest' (Adrian Henri). P.J. Kavanagh, writing in the Guardian, called him a 'dangerous truth-teller, with a cool, factual tenderness, the like of which I have seldom seen done better, and seldom seen at all'. This new, large selection includes poems from nine previous books, including Judy Garland the the Cold War, Constantly Singing and From the Irish.

Authentic and moving poems made out of the chaos of immediate history* Irish Press *
Simmons is a one-off, highly skilled and versatile, a genuinely accessible writer, who speaks from the life endured or enjoyed by many. Poems 1956-1986 deserves to be widely and repeatedly read. -- Sean O'Brien

James Simmons was born in Derry in 1933 and died in County Donegal in 2001. He taught in universities in Ireland, England and Africa and was Writer-in-Residence at Queen's University, Belfast. His collections of poems included Late but in Earnest, Energy to Burn, Constantly Singing and From the Irish. His Poems 156-1986 was published by Bloodaxe Books with The Gallery Press in 1986. Founder editor of The Honest Ulsterman and author of Sean O'Casey (1983), he released a number of LPs of his own songs. With his wife, Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons, he founded The Poet's House, first in Islandmagee, County Antrim, and then in Falcarragh, County Donegal.

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ISBN 13	9781852240202
ISBN 10	1852240202
Title	Poems 1956-1986
Author	James Simmons
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Year published	1986-11-27
Number of pages	208
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