New Selected Poems

P.J. Kavanagh

• 29 mei 2014
• 9781847775412

Samenvatting:

In his foreword to this book, Derek Mahon notes that P.J. Kavanagh"s poems ‘elude the obvious categories. He has never been one of a “school"". A poet of rural England, yet of Irish ancestry, Kavanagh ‘has always stood slightly apart". He championed the poems of Ivor Gurney and shares with Gurney not only a personal landscape (that of Gloucestershire) but a poetic commitment to the actual and specific, to nature writing at its most rootedly precise. His is, in Mahon"s words, ‘a unique personal record": ‘a lifetime"s dedication has produced its rich results".