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The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale´s Tongue
Liam de Paor
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Description for The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale´s Tongue
Paperback. First UK edition (bilingual) of one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets. Translator(s): Anderson, Kevin; Jenkinson, Biddy; O'Donoghue, Mary. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language literary renaissance of the 1970s and 80s. At that time he didn't want his poetry to be translated into English, believing it should be judged solely on his own original words and 'not critically assessed through the distorting prism of English' (Pat Cotter). But living in Australia for ten years gave him a different perspective, and he began publishing his work in bilingual editions. Since his return to Ireland in 1996, he has worked closely with poets Kevin Anderson, Biddy Jenkinson ... Read more
Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language literary renaissance of the 1970s and 80s. At that time he didn't want his poetry to be translated into English, believing it should be judged solely on his own original words and 'not critically assessed through the distorting prism of English' (Pat Cotter). But living in Australia for ten years gave him a different perspective, and he began publishing his work in bilingual editions. Since his return to Ireland in 1996, he has worked closely with poets Kevin Anderson, Biddy Jenkinson ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780371092
SKU
V9781780371092
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About Liam de Paor
Louis de Paor was born in 1961 in Cork, and educated at Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh. He is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language literary renaissance of the 1980s and 90s, editing the influential Irish-language journal Innti for a time. He spent time as a lecturer in Irish at University College ... Read more
Reviews for The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale´s Tongue
'This is an energetic, even boisterous, body of poetry, enlivened with a gift for the unexpected but compelling metaphor, ever ready to invite the reader to look afresh at the world of the everyday. These are poems that effectively combine emotion and intellect, sensuousness and insight, humour and melancholy. Louis de Paor is a poet who has inherited that peculiar ... Read more