
The Pleasure Ground
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Oscillating from beginning to end and from page to page between narrative and lyric, public and private, love poem and elegy, The Pleasure Ground is a hugely significant achievement. Now well into his ninth decade, Richard Murphy continues to be a poet of great fortitude and resource, one of the finest of our time. -- Michael Longley * The Irish Times *More details
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- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Preface: The Pleasure Ground
- PART ONE: Sailing to an Island and poems of the years 1952- 1962
- Sailing to an Island
- Wittgenstein and the Birds
- Girl at the Seaside
- The Archaeology of Love
- To a Cretan Monk in Thanks for a Flask of Wine
- Auction
- Epitaph on a Douglas Fir
- The Woman of the House
- Droit de Seigneur
- Grounds
- The Last Galway Hooker
- The Drowning of a Novice
- Theodore Roethke at Inishbofin, 1960
- Travelling Player
- Connemara Marble
- The Cleggan Disaster
- PART TWO: The Battle of Aughrim 1691 and The God Who Eats Corn 1963
- THE BATTLE OF AUGHRIM, 1691
- I NOW
- On Battle Hill
- Green Martyrs
- Orange March
- Casement's Funeral
- Historical Society
- Slate
- Inheritance
- Christening in Kilmaine, 1927
- History
- II BEFORE
- Legend
- St Ruth's Address to the Irish Army
- A Wife's Complaint
- Martial Law
- The Sheepfold
- Mercenary
- Dragoon
- God's Dilemma
- Planter
- Rapparees
- III DURING
- St Ruth
- The Winning Shot
- Patrick Sarsfield
- Men at the Castle
- Henry Luttrell
- Prisoner
- IV AFTER
- The Wolfhound
- The Reverend George Story Concludes An Impartial History of the Wars in Ireland
- Henry Luttrell's Death
- Patrick Sarsfield's Portrait
- Battle Hill Revisited
- THE GOD WHO EATS CORN 1963
- PART THREE: High Island and poems of the years 1967-1973
- Little Hunger
- Double Negative
- Pat Cloherty's Version of The Maisie
- Walking on Sunday
- Omey Island
- Jurors
- Corncrake
- Song for a Corncrake
- Epitaph for Shura
- Gallows Riddle
- The Reading Lesson
- Travelling Man
- Walled Up
- The Glass Dump Road
- Childhood in Ceylon, c. 1933
- High Island
- Brian Boru's Well
- Ball's Cove
- Granite Globe
- Stormpetrel
- Sunup
- Nocturne
- Seals at High Island
- PART FOUR: Care and poems of the years 1974-1984
- Moonshine
- Care
- Trouvaille
- Mary Ure
- Shelter
- Scythe
- Niches
- Swallows
- Stone Mania
- Husbandry
- A Nest in a Wall
- Tony White
- Tony White at Inishbofin
- Bookcase for The Oxford English Dictionary
- Circles
- The Afterlife
- Morning Call
- Sea Holly
- Quays
- Arsonist
- Elixir
- Amsterdam
- Altar
- Displaced Person
- Visiting Hour
- PART FIVE: The Price of Stone a sequence of 50 sonnets 1981-1984
- Chapter
- Folly
- Lead Mine Chimney
- Portico
- Nelson's Pillar
- Wellington Testimonial
- Georgian Tenement
- Gym
- Knockbrack
- Ice Rink
- Carlow Village Schoolhouse
- Roof-tree
- Red Bank Restaurant
- Little Barn
- Connemara Quay
- Birth Place
- Queen of the Castle
- Liner
- Planter Stock
- Family Seat
- Rectory
- Letterfrack Industrial School
- Baymount
- Canterbury Cathedral
- Choir School
- Suntrap
- Gate Lodge
- Milford: East Wing
- Carlyon Bay Hotel
- Wellington College
- Oxford Staircase
- Convenience
- Lecknavarna
- Killary Hostel
- Waterkeeper's Bothy
- Kylemore Castle
- Tony White's Cottage
- Pier Bar
- Miners' Hut
- Hexagon
- New Forge
- Cottage for Sale
- Horse-drawn Caravan
- Old Dispensary
- Chalet
- Prison
- Wattle Tent
- Newgrange
- Friary
- Beehive Cell
- Natural Son
- PART SIX: Sri Lanka and poems finished in the years 1985-2012
- Mangoes
- National Hero
- Sigiriya
- Sri Lanka
- National Tree
- Death in Kandy
- A River of Notebooks
- Double Vision
- Rite of Passage
- Waking from a Dream
- Vagrant
- Last Word
- APPENDIX
- Author's note on the provenance of 'Sailing to an Island'
- The provenance of 'Wittgenstein and the Birds'
- Author's note on 'The Last Galway Hooker'
- Photographs of Inishbofin - May 1960
- A note on the provenance of 'The Cleggan Disaster'
- THE BATTLE OF AUGHRIM
- Writing The Battle of Aughrim
- HISTORICAL NOTE
- A note on the provenance of The God Who Eats Corn
- On the provenance of the High Island poems
- Critique of 'Pat Cloherty's Version of The Maisie' by bernard o'donoghue
- Index of titles and first lines
- About the Author
- Also by Richard Murphy
- Copyright
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