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Last Poems

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173354
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Thomas Kinsella
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 18 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 07/06/2023
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 114 pages Weight: 185g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Last Poems brings together the poems of Thomas Kinsella from his five final Peppercanister pamphlets, originally collected as Late Poems (2013), along with a substantial selection of new poems, fragments and revised work which the poet completed before his death in December 2021.
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 was the author of over thirty books of poetry and of essays, and editor of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse. He passed away in December 2021.
• Thomas Kinsella was a universally-anthologised and widely-read Irish poet, translator, editor and critic with a loyal following in Ireland and abroad • Brings together his five final Peppercanister pamphlets (originally collected as Late Poems in 2013) with a substantial selection of new poems, fragments and revised work which the poet completed before his death • One of the great poets of the last century: his concern with elemental questions is evident here in poems drawn from student publications, in his characteristically meditative sequences and in glittering late fragments • His themes include age and mortality, the savage waste of war, and the opposing ways in which religion and science frame the human predicament
'Thomas Kinsella is the most important and the most compendious Irish poet since Yeats.' - Thomas H. Jackson; 'A glowing powerful source in Irish poetry.' - Eavan Boland
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