Patrick Kavanagh

I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.

The Great Hunger

His is a unique voice in modern lyrical poetry--ferociously independent, by turns ironic, colloquial, lyrical.

Collected Poems

First published in 1938, The Green Fool was withdrawn as a result of a libel action. It is an autobiography that paints a picture of a young man in a patriarchal society and captures the essence of Irish rural life.

The Green Fool

For Tarry Flynn, young farmer, poet, son and lover, the responsibility of family, farm and poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one and he realizes he must rise above it all or make his escape.

Tarry Flynn

A haunting evocation of a 1948 Newfoundland village blends the contemporary problems and heartaches of village inhabitants with a paganistic and superstitious atmosphere in a harshly beautiful and isolated land. A first novel. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A Novel

Gaff Topsails

Patrick Kavanagh was above all a poet, but for most of his writing life he was also a prolific producer of critical and autobiographical prose. Work for newspapers and magazines was often his main source of income, and it provided him with a necessary outlet for his views on the writers of his time, and past times, on the spiritual function of poetry, and on his own background and experiences as an isolated genius, impoverished, sometimes ostracized and surrounded, as he saw it, by mediocrity. The prose writings thus stand alongside the poems as a vital guide to the thought of Kavanagh and tell us things about him that the poems do not tell.

Selected Prose

A Poet's Country

Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' (1942) and his celebratory later verse, 'To Hell with Common Sense' and 'Come Dance with Kitty Stobling', which show his increasing comic verve and detachment. The first comprehensive selection of Kavanagh's poetry to be published, this volume offers a timely reassessment of a poet unfairly neglected outside Ireland.

Selected Poems

L'idiot en herbe

The Collected Poems comprises all the volumes of poetry that Vikram Seth has published this far. The books included are Mappings (1981), The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990), Three Chinese Poets (1992), Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) and Arion and the Dolphin (1994).

Kevin Mattson

Benjamin Johnson

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement

Steal this University

La hambruna y otros poemas

Tarry Flynn, roman âpre et drôle à la fois, centré sur la vie d'un jeune fermier rêveur et poète, est déjà un classique de la littérature irlandaise du XXe siècle. " L'humour rivalise avec le burlesque, le tragique avec la mesquinerie, les relations entre Tarry Flynn, sa mère et ses trois sœurs tirent vers le vaudeville. [...] Kavanagh sait faire entrer le lecteur dans les maisons, dans les champs, dans les étables, voir l'intérieur de cette condition rurale. On en sort ému, assailli par un profond sentiment d'innocence comme si finalement cette invitation arrachait en nous la perception d'une mémoire à jamais oubliée. " Philippe Savary, Le Matricule des Anges

'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Contains the text of, and commentary on, the religious poems of Patrick Kavanagh.

Patrick Kavanagh

About

Books

Join the club