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Butcher's Dozen

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To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet proudly publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's House of Commons apology, and a new author's note.
Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. He was educated at University College, Dublin and entered the Irish Civil Service before becoming a full-time writer and teach in the USA. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry and of essays, and editor of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse.
* Thomas Kinsella is a universally-anthologised and widely-read Irish poet, translator, editor and critic with a loyal following in Ireland and abroad. * His hugely controversial poem is here reissued to coincide with the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry (1972) in which thirteen people were killed. * Includes key extracts from the Saville Report - the final pronouncement of a government inquiry initiated by Tony Blair in 1998 concluding that none of the victims had posed any threat to the soldiers and that their shooting was without justification. * Features David Cameron’s apology in Parliament. * Includes a note on the poem by Thomas Kinsella.
'Thomas Kinsella is the most important and the most compendious Irish poet since Yeats.' - Thomas H. Jackson
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