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A time for voices : selected poems 1960-1990 / Brendan Kennelly.

By: Kennelly, Brendan.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books, 1990 (1996)Description: 174 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1852240970 (m) (pbk); 1852240962 (v) (hbk).Subject(s): English poetry -- Irish authors -- 20th century | Irish poetryDDC classification: 821.914
Contents:
The gift -- The blind man -- The story -- My dark fathers -- To learn -- The stick -- Catechism -- After School -- Killybegs -- Yes -- The Brightest of All -- The Smell -- Horsechestnuts -- Lost -- Entering -- The Exhibition -- The Horse's Head -- The grip -- The tippler -- The pig-killer -- Time for the Knife -- The Stones -- Innocent -- Poem from a three year old -- The visitor -- Baby -- Girl on a Tightrope -- Love-cry -- The Thatcher -- The Swimmer -- The Runner -- Bridge -- The kiss -- The hurt -- That look -- A leather apron -- A man in smoke remembered -- A man, but rarely mentioned -- The gift returned -- A beetle's back -- The learning -- Dream of a black fox -- Connection -- The scarf -- The Lislaughtin Cross -- Book -- Lighting -- Shell -- Sea -- The island -- Bread -- The sandwomen -- Silence -- May the silence break -- The burning of her hair -- We are living -- A greasy pole -- A kind of trust -- A passionate and gentle voice -- Separation -- Willow -- A viable odyssey -- To you -- The Furies -- The moment of Letlive -- Beyond knowledge -- Swanning -- Honey -- The speech of trees -- Wish -- Knives -- Straying -- Phone Call -- Keep in touch -- Star -- High planes -- Proof -- Birth -- Let it go -- The Whiteness -- A giving -- Sacrifice -- The fire is crying -- A half-finished garden -- Her face -- A restoration -- She sees her own distance -- More dust -- Wings -- A music -- The habit of redemption -- A glimpse of starlings -- A winter rose -- The names of the dead are lightning -- I see you dancing, Father -- The third force -- Gestures -- Westland row -- The Celtic Twilight -- Moments when the light -- Ambulance -- Hunchback -- Dublin: A portrait -- Clearing a space -- A visit -- Light dying -- Good souls, to survive -- The sin -- Six of one -- Lear in Africa -- The pig -- The loud men -- The big words -- Tail-end Charlie -- Blame -- De Valera at Ninety-Two -- Points of View -- Calling the shots -- The black fox, again -- The house that Jack didn't build -- Statement of the former occupant -- The joke -- From Cromwell -- Note -- Measures -- Balloons -- A friend of the people -- Manager, Perhaps -- Rebecca Hill -- Some people -- Wine -- A bit of a swap -- An example -- A condition -- Discipline -- Oliver's Prophecies -- A relationship -- Nails -- 'Therefore, I smile' -- A running battle -- Am.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most distinguished poets. He achieved inter-national recognition with his shocking epic poem Cromwell, following this with the even more notorious Book of Judas, which topped the Irish bestsellers list. His latest piece of mischief, Poetry My Arse, out-Judases Cromwell, sinking its teeth into the pants of poetry itself. But his poetry has always taken on the mantle of the outcast, revealing as well as reviling, as A Time for Voices clearly shows. This selection draws on thirty years of his poetry, including classics such as My Dark Fathers, The Visitor and Poem from a Three Year Old, as well as a spattering from Cromwell.A Time for Voices is now out of print. All the poems from the book were reprinted in his later retrospective, Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems 1960-2004.'I believe poetry must always be a flight from deadening authoritative egotism and must find its voices in the byways, laneways, backyards, nooks and crannies of self. It is critics who talk of "an authentic voice"; but a poet, living his uncertainties, is riddled with different voices, many of them in vicious conflict. The poem is the arena where these voices engage each other in open and hidden conflict, and continue to do so until they are all heard.' - Brendan Kennelly

Includes index.

The gift -- The blind man -- The story -- My dark fathers -- To learn -- The stick -- Catechism -- After School -- Killybegs -- Yes -- The Brightest of All -- The Smell -- Horsechestnuts -- Lost -- Entering -- The Exhibition -- The Horse's Head -- The grip -- The tippler -- The pig-killer -- Time for the Knife -- The Stones -- Innocent -- Poem from a three year old -- The visitor -- Baby -- Girl on a Tightrope -- Love-cry -- The Thatcher -- The Swimmer -- The Runner -- Bridge -- The kiss -- The hurt -- That look -- A leather apron -- A man in smoke remembered -- A man, but rarely mentioned -- The gift returned -- A beetle's back -- The learning -- Dream of a black fox -- Connection -- The scarf -- The Lislaughtin Cross -- Book -- Lighting -- Shell -- Sea -- The island -- Bread -- The sandwomen -- Silence -- May the silence break -- The burning of her hair -- We are living -- A greasy pole -- A kind of trust -- A passionate and gentle voice -- Separation -- Willow -- A viable odyssey -- To you -- The Furies -- The moment of Letlive -- Beyond knowledge -- Swanning -- Honey -- The speech of trees -- Wish -- Knives -- Straying -- Phone Call -- Keep in touch -- Star -- High planes -- Proof -- Birth -- Let it go -- The Whiteness -- A giving -- Sacrifice -- The fire is crying -- A half-finished garden -- Her face -- A restoration -- She sees her own distance -- More dust -- Wings -- A music -- The habit of redemption -- A glimpse of starlings -- A winter rose -- The names of the dead are lightning -- I see you dancing, Father -- The third force -- Gestures -- Westland row -- The Celtic Twilight -- Moments when the light -- Ambulance -- Hunchback -- Dublin: A portrait -- Clearing a space -- A visit -- Light dying -- Good souls, to survive -- The sin -- Six of one -- Lear in Africa -- The pig -- The loud men -- The big words -- Tail-end Charlie -- Blame -- De Valera at Ninety-Two -- Points of View -- Calling the shots -- The black fox, again -- The house that Jack didn't build -- Statement of the former occupant -- The joke -- From Cromwell -- Note -- Measures -- Balloons -- A friend of the people -- Manager, Perhaps -- Rebecca Hill -- Some people -- Wine -- A bit of a swap -- An example -- A condition -- Discipline -- Oliver's Prophecies -- A relationship -- Nails -- 'Therefore, I smile' -- A running battle -- Am.

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Booklist Review

With this selection from 30 years in the poetic traces, Kennelly finally breaks away from the Gael Pack, something readers of his profound and disturbing Cromwell (Bloodaxe Books, 1988) have been laying odds on. Heaney and Company, that first truly post-Yeatsian generation, have made a claim on the world's ear while remaining stubbornly rooted in the particulars of their impoverished and conflicted country. Kennelly is the best of them, drawing us close to the bitter truths of oppression and obsession, showing us the terror and yearning of an obscene caller, the pitiable courage of a bull-gored farmer, the "gentling touch" of a butcher. His range is wide: dramatic monologue, riddle, and lyric; narrative, ballad, and epigram. Kennelly is better known in Dublin, where the first run of this collection sold out in two weeks, than he is in Dubuque or Duluth. Needless to say, he deserves more attention in the U.S. --Pat Monaghan

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most distinguished and best loved poets, as well as a renowned teacher and cultural commentator. Born in 1936 in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, he was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin for over 30 years, and retired from teaching in 2005. He now lives in Listowel, Co. Kerry. He has published more than 30 books of poetry, including Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems 1960-2004 (2004), which includes the whole of his book-length poem The Man Made of Rain (1998). He is best-known for two controversial poetry books, Cromwell, published in Ireland in 1983 and in Britain by Bloodaxe in 1987, and his epic poem The Book of Judas (1991), which topped the Irish bestsellers list: a shorter version was published by Bloodaxe in 2002 as The Little Book of Judas. His third epic, Poetry My Arse (1995), did much to outdo these in notoriety. All these remain available separately from Bloodaxe, along with his more recent titles: Glimpses (2001), Martial Art (2003), Now (2006), Reservoir Voices (2009), The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems, edited by Terence Brown and Michael Longley, with audio CD (2011), and Guff (2013). His Journey into Joy: Selected Prose, edited by Åke Persson, was published by Bloodaxe in 1994, along with Dark Fathers into Light, a critical anthology on his work edited by Richard Pine. John McDonagh's critical study Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts was published in The Liffey Press's Contemporary Irish Writers series in 2004.

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