A time for voices : selected poems 1960-1990 / Brendan Kennelly.
By: Kennelly, Brendan.
Material type: BookPublisher: 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: 821.914Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 821.914 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00069059 |
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.