Trevor Joyce - Böcker

This extraordinary collection brings together the entirety of his work up0 to 2003 that Trevor Joyce wishes to preserve. Founder of the seminal New Writers' Press in Dublin, Joyce is Ireland's most stimulating late-modernist poet, unrepentantly engaging the global modernist tradition at a time when it would seem to many that Irish writers, whether in the Republic or the orphaned north, prefer to hunker down and be parochial. The book includes the early collections Sole Glum Trek, Watches and Pentahedron and the splendid re-working of of the Buile Suibhne epic The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine, as well as the later masterworks Stone Floods and Syzygy, the former nominated for the 1995 Irish Times Literary Award for Poetry, the latter a formal tour-de-force previously only available as a limited edition chapbook. The volume concludes with more recent uncollected work of great power and ambition. This is the second edition, in a slightly larger format, of a book first published in 2001 with the ISBN 0-907562-29-9.

"Courts of Air and Earth" is a collection of Trevor Joyce's translations from the Old and Middle Irish, with his remarkable version of the epic "Poems of Sweeny, Peregrine", at the core. Also included are a series of "Love Songs from a Dead Tongue", versions of "Sean O Duibher of the Glen", and selections from the "Danta Gradha".

This Selected provides an overview of Trevor Joyce's multifaceted poetic career and covers some 45 years of work. The books appears simultaneously with the first major scholarly volume devoted to his work.

What's in Store, now in a second edition (and first UK edition) was Trevor Joyce's first full-length book following the publication of his collected earlier poems, with the first dream of the fire they hunt the cold (2001). For this volume, the author shaped eight years' worth of work - individual poems, extended sequences, translations from the Irish, Chinese, and other languages-into a continuous book-length structure. These poems find Joyce reaching out towards a jarringly wide range of styles and voices, from the tart lyricism of his workings of European folksongs to the ferociously dense collage/inscription of 'STILLSMAN.' Brought together as a book, the poems take on further meanings: What's in Store is at once a Borgesian guide to the history, customs and scientific discourse of an unknown country, and an Oulipian textual machine, whose workings by turns terrify and exalt. "This is one of my favorite poets anywhere. His poems have the clear, austere and impersonal ring of great translations. They are archetypal, they are strange" -Fanny Howe."In a language of chiselled lucidity and deceptive simplicity, Joyce steps through a dazzling range of forms and discursive modes, from translations of folk poetry to the languages of bureaucracy and cult. And through it all, the lyric swerve and shear persists and sings. What's in Store demonstrates conclusively what many have long known: Trevor Joyce is one of a small handful of really significant poets writing from Ireland today." -David Lloyd