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The Kick: A Memoir of the Poet Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy
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Description for The Kick: A Memoir of the Poet Richard Murphy
Hardcover. Based upon private diaries kept over the long life and disjointed times of the poet Richard Murphy. Born (1927) he won an Oxford scholarship at 17. There he encountered Ken Tynan (a bit older) and C.S. Lewis in extraordinary circumstances. One life story follows another in a continuous, witty, ironical narrative of surprising events. Num Pages: 36 photographs. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
The Kick is a page-turner, based upon private diaries kept over the long life and disjointed times of the poet Richard Murphy. Born (1927) in the relics of a walled demesne near Kilamine, County Mayo, he was shipped out and back twice to the British Crown Colony of Ceylon, where his father was a colonial administrator. Thereafter he was moved every two years or so to a different boarding school for boys, mostly in England, until he won an Oxford scholarship at 17. There he encountered Ken Tynan (a bit older) and C.S. Lewis in extraordinary circumstances. One life story ... Read more
The Kick is a page-turner, based upon private diaries kept over the long life and disjointed times of the poet Richard Murphy. Born (1927) in the relics of a walled demesne near Kilamine, County Mayo, he was shipped out and back twice to the British Crown Colony of Ceylon, where his father was a colonial administrator. Thereafter he was moved every two years or so to a different boarding school for boys, mostly in England, until he won an Oxford scholarship at 17. There he encountered Ken Tynan (a bit older) and C.S. Lewis in extraordinary circumstances. One life story ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782052340
SKU
9781782052340
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About Richard Murphy
Richard Murphy (born 1927) is one of Ireland's most distinguished poets. He is particularly known for poems that draw on the people, the landscape, and the history of the west of Ireland. His Collected Poems (Gallery Press) was published in 2000. Lilliput Press published Murphy's Poems 1952-2012 with a revised text and appendices in 2013 and The Poetry Book Society ... Read more
Reviews for The Kick: A Memoir of the Poet Richard Murphy
A fine, considered and fascinating memoir of a life lived as close to the full as possible. - John Banville, New York Review of Books;A superb insight into the social transformation of post-imperial England and post-colonial Ireland in the middle of the last century - amusing and haunting. - Declan Kiberd, The Irish Times; By turns funny, quirky and lyrical. ... Read more