Poetry My Arse

Poetry My Arse PDF Author: Brendan Kennelly
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Kennelly followed his shocking epic poem Cromwell with the even more notorious Book of Judas, which topped the Irish bestsellers list. This new piece of mischief out -- Judases Cromwell, sinking its teeth into the pants of poetry itself. Here, the author plays devil's advocate, exploring the 'poetryworlds' of one Ace de Horner who is slowly going blind. Helped by his uglyjoe dog, Kanooce, and by a woman, Janey Mary, Ace thinks he is connecting the fragments of his life a little more convincingly. Not so! As the poem digs into Ace's vanity, visions, fantasies, failures, dedication and absurdity, the reader is aware of Ace's frustration in his efforts to relate to poetry, to his jocular distortions of language and to his pained perspective on the world.

Poetry My Arse

Poetry My Arse PDF Author: Brendan Kennelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Book Description
Kennelly followed his shocking epic poem Cromwell with the even more notorious Book of Judas, which topped the Irish bestsellers list. This new piece of mischief out -- Judases Cromwell, sinking its teeth into the pants of poetry itself. Here, the author plays devil's advocate, exploring the 'poetryworlds' of one Ace de Horner who is slowly going blind. Helped by his uglyjoe dog, Kanooce, and by a woman, Janey Mary, Ace thinks he is connecting the fragments of his life a little more convincingly. Not so! As the poem digs into Ace's vanity, visions, fantasies, failures, dedication and absurdity, the reader is aware of Ace's frustration in his efforts to relate to poetry, to his jocular distortions of language and to his pained perspective on the world.

The Book of Judas

The Book of Judas PDF Author: Brendan Kennelly
Publisher: Dufour Editions
ISBN: 9781852241711
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Brendan Kennelly's Book of Judas, a 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, became the number one bestselling book in Ireland. As well as receiving rapturous reviews, Brendan Kennelly won the Sunday Independent/Irish Life Award for the book and earned the ultimate accolade of 'Kerryman of the Year'. Not merely lost but irredeemable, Kennelly's bitterly articulate Judas speaks, dreams and murmurs - of past and present, history and myth, good and evil, of men, women and children, and of course money - until we realise that the unspeakable perpetrator of the apparently unthinkable, in penetrating the icy reaches of his own world, becomes a sly, many-voiced critic of ours. The full-sized Book of Judas is no longer available, usurped by The Little Book of Judas, a distillation of that literary monster, purged to its traitorous essence.

The Man Made of Rain

The Man Made of Rain PDF Author: Brendan Kennelly
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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"This new long poem is a departure for Kennelly, a visionary work written out of the body, out of the self, out of the shadowlands between life and death."--Cover.

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe PDF Author: Fernando Pessoa
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440627002
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from “the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of” (Los Angeles Times) Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A Biography A Penguin Classic Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three “heteronyms”―Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Campos―alter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his most famous voices, this collection features Pessoa’s major, best-known works and several stunning poems that have come to light only in this century, including his long, highly autobiographical swan song. Featuring a rich body of work that has never before been translated into English, this is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa’s genius.

Reservoir Voices

Reservoir Voices PDF Author: Brendan Kennelly
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other ways of being in the world. The riddling poems of "Reservoir Voices" add a further dimension to these explorations, inspired by an autumn sojourn in America where he would sit by the edge of a reservoir, trying to cope with loneliness by contemplating black swans, blue waves, seagulls, trees and rocks: 'It was in that state of fascinated dislocation, of almost mesmerized emptiness, that the voices came with suggestions, images, memories, delights, horrors, rhythms, insights and calm, irrefutable insistence that it was they who were speaking, not me. To surrender to loneliness is to admit new presences, new voices into that abject emptiness. So I wrote down what I heard the voices say and, at moments, sing.'

Mythologies

Mythologies PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684826216
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This is the definitive edition of W.B. Yeats's folklore & early prose fiction, edited according to Yeats's final textual instructions. Its extensive annotation makes luminous Yeats's 'fibrous darkness', that 'matrix out of which everything else has come', by dealing with oral & written sources, abandoned & unpublished writings.

The Singing Tree

The Singing Tree PDF Author: Brendan Kennelly
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Crazy about Women

Crazy about Women PDF Author: Paul Durcan
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Love of Ireland

Love of Ireland PDF Author: Brendan Kennelly
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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This is a magical collection of translations from the Irish by one of Ireland's leading poets, Brendan Kennelly. Here he has captured all of the spontaneity, candour, freshness and emotional fullness of Irish poetry. -- Back cover.

When Then is Now

When Then is Now PDF Author: Brendan Kennelly
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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"When Then is Now" brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless human dilemmas as relevant now as they were in ancient times. All focus on women whose lives are torn apart by war, family conflict and despotic regimes. In his preface, Brendan Kennelly describes how writing these three plays helped him enormously at difficult times in his own life. "When Then is Now" gives living testament of his belief that 'listening to ancient voices can help us confront, understand and express many problems of today'.