Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

The Boys of Bluehill (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'I returned to that narrow street where I used to stand and listen to the chat from kitchen or parlour, filtered through rotten tiles. I thought the rough walls seemed higher than before . . .' So begins Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's most recent excavation of memory and examination of time (and timelessness on the Skellig islands). With what Sean O'Brien in The Guardian pinpointed as her poetry's 'technical command with its richly cadenced free verse and sly rhyme' and her 'arresting authority' her way of seeing has become a vision. A painterly detail illuminates poem after poem - 'looking at the map . . . I can see/how countries are nibbled out of continents.' Music permeates the collection which also features elegies and poems about language. A beautiful image of her father, 'a mountain becoming a mountain range', might describe her own work. Just as she refreshes an Old Irish anonymous poem her own original, commemorative art renews the world. This is a book to be grateful for.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Gallery Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781852356965
• Artikelnr.: 47978960

Autorenporträt

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City. She was a founder member of Cyphers, the literary journal (1975). Her first collection, Acts and Monuments, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. The Gallery Press has published her eight collections of poems including The Girl who Married the Reindeer, The Sun-fish, which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and Selected Poems. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin lives in Dublin where she is a Fellow and Professor of English (Emeritus) at Trinity College and a member of Aosdána (the Irish Association to honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland). She has recently been appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016-2019.