Prophecy
eBook - ePub

Prophecy

Poems

  1. 88 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Prophecy

Poems

About this book

Following his acclaimed Pandemonium, Thomas McCarthy's Prophecy dwells on childhood memory, romantic love, and the varieties of human attachment. There are poems on illness and recovery, ageing and creativity. From the community well of his childhood home in County Waterford to the holy well and pilgrim site of St Gobnait's in County Cork, the poet finds that the act of remembering is an act of making and understanding. 'All this / Metaphor and trauma and formal technique / I place in my canvas travel bag, ' he writes. 'Along with Paul Muldoon, ' suggested Dennis O'Driscoll, McCarthy is 'the most important Irish poet of his generation.'

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781784107277
eBook ISBN
9781784107284
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia europea

Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  4. Bottling Shed, 1962
  5. Toy Soldiers on a Window-sill
  6. The Beginning of Colour
  7. Ice Cream
  8. Worse Than Nothing
  9. Rita Hayworth Sleeping
  10. Falcons Hunting
  11. I Love Also
  12. Wanting to Hold an Owl
  13. Figs at Aghios Nikolaos
  14. Son, Husband, Father
  15. Cats on the Rampart
  16. Sing the Shehecheyana
  17. There Once was a Girl
  18. As Blue
  19. After Surgery
  20. Second Night
  21. Age and Creativity
  22. Louise Bourgeois, Patrick Pye
  23. In 1974
  24. Remembrance Day
  25. Our Irish Anniversaries, 2016
  26. Garden of Remembrance
  27. Rebellion
  28. Field Hospital, 1917
  29. The Passing of Old Ukraine
  30. A Don Cossack by the Sea of Marmara
  31. How It’s Going to Play Out
  32. The Dead of Albuera
    33. ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Bottling Shed, 1962
  6. Toy Soldiers on a Window-sill
  7. The Beginning of Colour
  8. Ice Cream
  9. Worse Than Nothing
  10. Rita Hayworth Sleeping
  11. Falcons Hunting
  12. I Love Also
  13. Wanting to Hold an Owl
  14. Figs at Aghios Nikolaos
  15. Son, Husband, Father
  16. Cats on the Rampart
  17. Sing the Shehecheyana
  18. There Once Was a Girl
  19. As Blue
  20. After Surgery
  21. Second Night
  22. Age and Creativity
  23. Louise Bourgeois, Patrick Pye
  24. In 1974
  25. Remembrance Day
  26. Our Irish Anniversaries, 2016
  27. Garden of Remembrance
  28. Rebellion
  29. Field Hospital, 1917
  30. The Passing of Old Ukraine
  31. A Don Cossack by the Sea of Marmara
  32. How It’s Going to Play Out
  33. The Dead of Albuera
  34. George Boole
  35. North of Duluth
  36. Counter-Mannerism and Early Baroque
  37. Reading American Song by Paul Engle and The Land by Vita Sackville-West
  38. Thigh-Bone of a Deer
  39. At St Gobnait’s Well
  40. At the Monte Carlo, Minneapolis
  41. An Emergency of Ornaments
  42. A Cork Fog
  43. Sand, Ink
  44. Cruise Ship in Cork Harbour
  45. Four Crew
  46. The Scent From Architecture
  47. A Celtic Miscellany
  48. Last Flight
  49. Vermeer and Thrift
  50. ‘Adam et Eve’ by Francis Picabia
  51. The Seven Pear Trees of Avigdor Arikha
  52. Last Service in the Orthodox Synagogue
  53. The Voice of Larry Cunningham
  54. Majestic
  55. In Reduced Circumstances
  56. At Thoor Ballylee
  57. Guy Lombardo
  58. Taking Instructions from Gertrude Jekyll
  59. Acknowledgements
  60. About the Author
  61. Copyright