New and Selected Poems
Published on 23. July 2011
300 pages
978-1-907593-71-0 (ISBN)
Description
Michael D. Higgins is one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals. As well as having made a significant contribution to public life, he is a prolific poet, whose work ranges from the personal to the political, and geographically from the west of Ireland to Nicaragua and the Middle East. Here, he has gathered together the very best of his poetic output over the years. In these poems, he casts a wry, compassionate eye on human weakness and resilience, and the centrality of love to all human relations. Throughout it all, his yearning for a world marked above all by social justice stands out. This collection is a treasury of the very best of his writing over the years and is sure to delight younger readers as well as his established followers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United States
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0,59 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-907593-71-0 (9781907593710)
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Note
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- I
- Early Days
- The betrayal
- Relatives Assisting
- The Master
- Requiem for a parish priest
- The death of the red cow
- Dark memories
- Against all certainty
- Sunday ceremonies in Clare
- Brothers
- Katie's song
- My mother married my father in Mount Melleray in 1937
- The ass
- Horseshoe
- Too close to the ground
- Inadequacy
- One's own story
- In memory deposit
- Of sons and fathers
- Of sons and mothers
- The poisoning
- The ruin
- II
- Of Rural Realities
- Sense memory
- The Inter
- The age of f lowers
- Stargazer
- The delivery
- The collecting
- The death of Mary Doyle
- The Raft
- Meeting
- On making the Three Decades
- After-Mass meeting
- The man who never had a visitor
- Toes
- Questions without answers
- Our Lady of the Trolleys
- The storyteller
- Discourse of crows on a late-winter morning
- III
- The Gaze Not Averted
- Beyond the I
- Take care
- Foxtrot in San Salvador
- Black Tuesday
- Goodbye Mr Michael
- Pol Pot in Anlon Veng
- Under the mango tree
- When bells ring
- And the trees wept
- Minister for Justice addresses new Irish citizens who were previously non-persons seeking asylum or work
- IV
- Of Irony and Insufficiency
- A race-week ref lection in the university city of Galway, 1970
- Bank manager faints at the mayor's ball
- Jesus appears in Dublin in 1990 at the Port & Docks Board site
- The minister's black car
- An Irish architect reflects on his success
- Revivalists
- Ritualists
- V
- Of Friendship, Loss and Hope
- The truth of poetry
- Of possibility
- Of little flowers
- The ebbing tide
- Memory
- Of utopias
- Copyright
