One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-57) released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. Instead his poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focuses on closely observed images of rural life, where 'ordinary things wear lovely wings'. This section ranges from Kavangh's early poems such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening', to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' and his celebratory later verse 'To Hell with Common Sense' and 'Come Dance with Kitty Stobling'. The first comprehensive selection of Kavangh's poetry to be published, this volume offers a timely reassessment of a poet unfairly neglected outside Ireland.
'These poems make you feel all over again a truth which the mind becomes adept at evading…"You must change your life"' - Seamus Heaney
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 29 January, 2010.
