Patrick Joseph Kavanagh

P.J.Kavanagh's poems are filled with praise, with the minute observations that transform a mood, or the dazzling recollection that can change the heart. 'If description is revelation,' wrote Derek Mahon in the Irish Times, 'his revelatory gift is prodigious. Now is the time to read P.J.Kavanagh.' The contents of seven collections are included in this comprehensive volume, which traces the poet through three and a half decades and ends with his remarkable human elegy and celebration of a beloved landscape, 'Severn Aisling', described by Frank Kermode as 'quite magnificent.'

Collected Poems

James Michie

Short poems can have marvellous clarity, humour, and depth. They can range from subjects as diverse as a child's first wods, a woman's feet, or the destiny of man.P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie have chosen those short poems (of less than fourteen lines) which they consider to be the best in the English language, from medieval times to the present day. Their selection extends from Chaucer to Philip Larkin, from Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, from Blake to EdithSitwell, and from Yeats to Emily Dickinson, demonstrating the gradual changes in style, subject-matter, and tone from one generation of poets to the next.

The Oxford Book of Short Poems

Section 9 of this book originally appeared in Transatlantic Review--t p verso Originally published: Great Britain : Chatto & Windus, 1966.

The Perfect Stranger

A memoir detailing the British poet's travels from Butlin's Holiday Camp to Switzerland and Paris, to a battlefield in Korea, to Oxford, Barcelona and Java, and the new meaning his life took on as a result of his meeting Sally

Varying greatly in theme, style, and tone, these poems of fourteen lines or less include works by such masters as Jonson, Herrick, Blake, Dickinson, Yeats, Hardy, and Frost, as well as many lesser-known poets

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