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Collected Poems 1986-2006 (Oxford Poets)
Greg Delanty
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Description for Collected Poems 1986-2006 (Oxford Poets)
Paperback. Bringing Greg Delanty's six books together, this book contains poems that draw on an inheritance from the different worlds that Delanty moves in: Ireland and America, Gaelic and English, traditional verse forms and modern colloquial. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338. Signed and inscribed by the author
This volume brings together twenty years of the acclaimed Irish poet's work. Each of Greg Delanty's six books so far published is an entity in itself, a single-seeming movement. Bringing the books together in a single volume, juxtaposing them as it were, reveals the enormous resourcefulness and wit of this unusual poet who keenly interweaves material and themes drawn from his reading, writing and living (there is no real line between them). Marriage, childbirth, friendship, landscapes Irish and Indian and American, real and imagined, politics, the personal and private and the public...we are organised as a word and a line ... Read more
This volume brings together twenty years of the acclaimed Irish poet's work. Each of Greg Delanty's six books so far published is an entity in itself, a single-seeming movement. Bringing the books together in a single volume, juxtaposing them as it were, reveals the enormous resourcefulness and wit of this unusual poet who keenly interweaves material and themes drawn from his reading, writing and living (there is no real line between them). Marriage, childbirth, friendship, landscapes Irish and Indian and American, real and imagined, politics, the personal and private and the public...we are organised as a word and a line ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903039823
SKU
KSG0013813
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Greg Delanty
Greg Delanty was born in Cork, Ireland in 1958, and now lives for most of the year in America, where he teaches at St Michael's College, Vermont. His earlier books include Cast in the Fire (1986), Southward (1992), American Wake (1995) and - available from OxfordPoets - The Hellbox (1998). He was awarded the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry award in ... Read more
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