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16 produkter
Cromwell
Häftad, 1987
162 kr
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Buffún is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon can't cope. This Cromwell is a cocky tyrant who wants to run a football team, or start a taxi business. Enter the …
Ireland`s Women – Writings Past and Present
Writings Past and Present
Av A. Norman Jeffares, Katie Donovan m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
460 kr
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This is the first volume of its kind to present a collection of writings by and about Ireland's women. From Queen Maeve of Connaught to President Mary Robinson, this book presents Irish women as their compatriots-men and women both-have described and interpreted them. Modern Irish women are …
Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems
E-bok, 2011
201 kr
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This enhanced ebook with includes audio files of Brendan Kennelly reading his poems drawn from four classic recordings made in Dublin in 1982, 1998, 1999 and 2002. These include recordings of 32 individual poems as well asfour extracts from his book-length poem The Man Made of Rain. Brendan …
Guff
E-bok, 2014
167 kr
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Brendan Kennelly''s Guff is both mouthpiece and mouthed off, Devil''s advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning. The book of Guff is about words writing the man. Words drive him into the cave of himself where he questions everything including …
Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me
Av Neil Astley, Brendan Kennelly
E-bok, 2022
246 kr
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Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl’s susceptibility to extremism. The book’s fragmented, collaging narrative draws together fairytale elements, glimpses of Fairoz’s thoughts, and pieces of dialogue. A folkloric representation of God and …
Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
100 classic poems with commentary
Av Brendan Kennelly, Brendan Kennelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
185 kr
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The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me is the ultimate reader’s companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from ?ve centuries with lively “companion” commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the …
Glimpses
Häftad, 2001
205 kr
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In a frantic world, the momentary glimpse can spark a sudden flash of insight. This resonating glimpse-caught on the move-ripples through the mind, illuminating past and present, fast-forwarding in a split second to reveal future possibilities. But in an instant it is gone, lost in the bustle of …
Little Book of Judas
Häftad, 2002
191 kr
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The Book of Judas, Brendan Kennelly’s 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, was the number one bestselling book in Ireland. The Little Book of Judas is a distillation of that literary monster, purged to its traitorous essence. But Judas never goes away. He continued to worm his way into Kennelly’s …
Martial Art
Häftad, 2003
120 kr
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Martial is alive and kicking in Brendan Kennelly's latter-day Dublin versions of the Spanish Roman poet. He is a satirist trying to define generosity, happiness and love, with scurrilous candour and piercing clarity, in brief punchy poems. But no matter how savage his attacks, he is always playful …
Familiar Strangers
New & Selected Poems 1960-2004
Häftad, 2004
409 kr
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Familiar Strangers is Brendan Kennelly's own selection from over 20 poetry books written over five decades. This landmark volume replaces his earlier selections A Time for Voices, Breathing Spaces and Begin. But Kennelly has revisited his life work, re-scoring familiar and estranged pieces into new …
When Then is Now
Three Greek Tragedies: The Trojan Women, Medea, Antigone
Häftad, 2006
191 kr
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"When Then is Now" brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless human dilemmas as relevant now as they were in ancient times. All focus on women whose lives are torn …
Now
Häftad, 2006
134 kr
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Now is a fast and frenzied meditation on time, ageing, alienation and the pressures of living in the modern city. Each triplet in this book-length poetry sequence addresses the question: What is 'now'? With the brevity of a proverb, each three-liner offers a short, sharp perception which tries to …
Reservoir Voices
Häftad, 2009
185 kr
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Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other ways of being in the world. The riddling poems of "Reservoir Voices" add a further dimension to these …
Essential Brendan Kennelly
Selected Poems
Av Brendan Kennelly, Terence Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
190 kr
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Brendan Kennelly was one of Ireland’s most popular and prolific poets. Over five decades he wrote thousands of poems published in over 30 books of poetry, including three previous editions of Selected Poems. Published on his 75th birthday, this new selection presents just over a hundred of …
Guff
Häftad, 2013
148 kr
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Brendan Kennelly's Guff is both mouthpiece and mouthed off, Devil's advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning. The book of Guff is about words writing the man. Words drive him into the cave of himself where he questions everything including …
