Prose Occasions

1951–2006

By Thomas Kinsella, Edited by Andrew Fitzsimons

POETRY

360 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $36.95 (US $36.95) (CA $40.95)

Publication Date: April 2009

ISBN 9781847770011

Price:	$36.95

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Overview

A career-spanning selection of Thomas Kinsella's essays and reviews, this remarkable compendium makes available for the first time key works in modern Irish literature such as the poet’s discussions of the Gaelic tradition. Alongside writings on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Austin Clarke, Louis le Brocquy, and Séan Ó Riada, this comprehensive reference extends understanding of Kinsella's work by including his reflections on his own poetry. In addition, Kinsella evaluates the works of fellow writers such as W. H. Auden, Donald Davie, William Empson, Robert Graves, and Marianne Moore. A previously unpublished address given by Kinsella at the University of Turin is also included.

Reviews

"He is the great poet of the Republic as surely as Seamus Heaney is the poet laureate of Northern Ireland . . . Kinsella continues to write in an innovative and mind-stretching way." —The Irish Times

"Kinsella is by now the most formidable presence in Irish poetry, a man whose work has achieved a community and sustained power which is all the more impressive when we look at the comparatively scattered and broken achievements of predecessors like Devlin, Clarke, and Kavanagh." —R. F. Garfitt, Modern Irish Poetry

Author Biography

Thomas Kinsella is an Irish author, poet, translator, and editor. He was the director of Dolmen Press and Cuala Press and the founder of Peppercanister Press. He is the recipient of the Denis Devlin Memorial Award, the Freedom of the City of Dublin Award , and the Irish Arts Council Triennial Book Award. Andrew Fitzsimons is an author, a translator, and an associate professor at Gakushin University in Tokyo.

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