
The End of the Modern World
Anthony Cronin(Author)
New Island Books (Publisher)
Published on 31. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-84840-524-0 (ISBN)
Description
'The sun, a crucible of nuclear rage, Knows nothing of such ends: Such a culmination Of history seen at sunset from the harbour, Meaningless, astonishing and simple.' Since the original version of Anthony Cronin's classic sequence, The End of the Modern World, first appeared in 1989, it has been acclaimed as one of the most singular achievements in twentieth-century Irish poetry. Revised and extended since then by the author, this new edition is the first time that this major work has been published in its entirety as a solo volume. Its publication allows Cronin's psychic history of western civilisation to finally stand alone as a landmark work in its own light.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
133 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84840-524-0 (9781848405240)
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About the Author As well as ten collections of poetry, Anthony Cronin has written a number of prose works, including biographies of Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett, the classic memoir of Dublin's arts scene in the fifties, Dead as Doornails, as well as numerous essays and a novel, The Life of Riley. He is married to the writer Anne Haverty and lives in Dublin. He served as a cultural and artistic advisor to the Irish Government in the 1980s, and was a founding member of Aosdana, where he holds the office of Saoi, a distinction conferred for exceptional artistic achievement.