Life is a dream / Paul Durcan

No review available on this record. Title : Life is a dream : 40 years reading poems, 1967-2007 Material Type: printed text Authors: Paul Durcan, Author Publisher: London : Harvill Secker Publication Date: 2009 Pagination: xx, 586 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-1-84655-024-9 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 567) Includes index (p. 571-586) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: English poetry - 20th century English poetry - Irish authors Class number: 821.914 Abstract: Famous for his electrifying poetry readings, Paul Durcan marks four decades of composing silently and reciting aloud with this magnificent collection, which brings together for the first time the critically acclaimed poet's own choice of his work from his first book, "Endsville" (1967), to "The Laughter of Mothers" (2007). "Life is a Dream" represents the whole range of Durcan's writing - funny and subversive verse narratives and self-mocking poems of underachievement, poems celebrating love and sex or the lives of famous writers and artists, as well as tender, poignant verses commemorating the dead. Throughout his long career, Durcan has continued to make passionate and moving poetry out of his own and his country's misfortunes. He is by turns a surrealist, a mystic, an Irish comedian with perfect comic timing and an angry champion of the oppressed. "Life is a Dream" reaffirms the constant vision and artistic integrity of one of the most powerful, humane and original voices in modern poetry. Contents note: O west-port in the light of Asia minor; Teresa's bar; Sam's cross; Jesus, break his fall; Jumping the train tracks with Angela; The Berlin wall cafe; Going home to Russia; Daddy, daddy; Crazy about women; A snail in my prime; Give my your hand; A goose in the frost; Christmas day; greetings to our friends in Brazil; Cries of an Irish caveman; the art of life; The laughter of mothers; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16931

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The Penguin book of contemporary Irish poetry

No review available on this record. Title : The Penguin book of contemporary Irish poetry Material Type: printed text Authors: Peter Fallon, Editor ; Derek Mahon, Editor Publisher: London : Penguin Book Publication Date: 1990 Pagination: xxii; 462 p. Size: 21 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-058609-1 Price: 15 $ General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-447) Includes index (p. 455-462) Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: English poetry - Irish authors Ireland - Poetry Poetry Class number: 821.914 Abstract: The vitality, richness and range of Irish poetry over the last forty years, together with the strength of its traditions, are vividly demonstrated in this collection. The anthology includes generous selections of poems by such exemplary and celebrated figures as Thomas Kinsella, John Montague and Semaus Heaney and, among younger poets, Paul Muldoon, Paul Durcan and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. It introduces to an international audience a number of poets whose work is insufficiently known outside Ireland (representing, moreover, the dual traditions they inherit) and includes some poems in Irish, with translations. Irish poetry features at the forefront of modern writing in English, which there varied voices extend and enhance. Contents note: Thomas Kinsella; John Montague; Richard Murphy; Pearse Hutchinson; Anthony Cronin; Tom Mac Intyre; James Simmons; Desmond O’Grady; Brendan Kennelly; Seamus Heaney; Michael Longley; Seamus Deane; Eamon Grennan; Michael Hartnett; Derek Mahon; Michael Smith; Eavan Boland; Paul Durcan ; John Ennis; Richard Ryan; Hugh Maxton; Frank Ormsby; Ciaran Carson; Tom Paulin; Michael Davitt; Medbh McGuckian; Peter Fallon; Paul Muldoon; Harry Clifton; Nuala Ní Dhomhenaill; Thomas McCarthy; Aidan Carl Mathews; Michael O’Loughlin; Peter Sirr; Sara Berkeley; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16205

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1702-001340	821.914 Penguin 1999	General Collection	Library "Max van der Stoel"	English	Available