Ebook: The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems

Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most popular and prolific poets. Over the past five decades he has written 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 Kennelly's most essential poems. The Essential Brendan Kennelly has been edited by two lifelong admirers of his work. Like Kennelly, Terence Brown, Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature, studied at Trinity College Dublin, and taught there for most of life. After studying at Trinity Colle.;Cover; Description; Title Page; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Adam; The Gift; Westland Row; Before Leaving ... ; Moloney Up and At It; My Dark Fathers; Getting Up Early; Lislaughtin Abbey; God's Eye; Begin; The Pig-killer; Death of a Strong Man; Dream of a Black Fox; Bread; 'Dear Autumn Girl'; A Giving; Birth; Let It Go; A Kind of Trust; The Kiss; The Visitor; Poem from a Three Year Old; The Singing Girl Is Easy in Her Skill; Living Ghosts; To Learn; The Smell; The Horse's Head; The Names of the Dead Are Lightning; The Bell; Points of View.