Crooked love

Gra fiar

Crooked love
Kevin Anderson, Louis Paor, Biddy Jenkinson
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25 Feb 2022 UK
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9781780375946
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Louis de Paor is one of Ireland' s leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language poetry renaissance of the 1980s and 90s. His dual-language selection The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale' s Tongue was published in 2014, following his selected poems, Rogha Danta (2012), voted one of the top ten collections in Irish since the turn of the millennium. This new dual-language selection is mainly drawn from two other collections, Cupla Siamach an Ama/The Siamese Twins of Time and Gra fiar/Crooked Love, with translations made by Louis de Paor with Kevin Anderson and Biddy Jenkinson. It shows a paring back of language and a greater flexibility of form in his poetry, as well as a preoccupation with the passage of time and its implications for both familial and sexual love. His narrative skill and inventiveness come together in the sequence ' La da raibh/One day' , which follows a day in the life of an imaginary village in the west of Ireland where the living and the dead, the real and the unreal, collide. This was first performed live (in English) at the Irish Arts Center in New York. It was adapted for a dual-language radio feature with music by Dana Lyn broadcast on RTE Lyric FM and Raidio na Gaeltachta in 2021.
There is a great deal of narrative play and wit. The imagery is taken from common life as observed at first hand mostly, but transformed by a delight in resemblance and transformation. . . there is a Chagallian inclusiveness and generosity in the poems that is more than its incidents. The poetry can turn to darkness and the public world as well as to the intimate village or street. -- George Szirtes * Poetry Ireland Review, on The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale' s Tongue * While poetry should always be romantic (there never is a practical reason for the stuff) he always avoided the romanticism of the mushy line and the soft tone and the fuzzy diction. There was always something wire-taut about his work. No floss here. -- Alan Titley * The Irish Times * De Paor has for long been a master of the short lyric in which the literal and the figurative combine in a tight nexus of images that distil the character of a particular individual, relationship or encounter. The highly sensuous poems from the early collections set the scene for a body of work where sight and touch and smell are often invoked and where intense moments or intimate states are exposed by flashes of light or by dramatic physical contrast. The collection Rogha Danta is a rich representation of the work of a poet who is now in his prime and still producing fresh and challenging poems that speak to and across different generations. It is a mark of major achievement and a sign that there is much more to come. -- Mairin Nic Eoin
Louis de Paor was born in Cork in 1961 and and was a key figure in the Irish language literary renaissance of the 1980s and 90s, editing the influential Irish-language journal Innti for a time. He spent time as a lecturer in Irish at University College Cork and Thomond College, Limerick, before combining teaching with radio work in Australia from 1987 to 1996. He was appointed Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway in 2000. His dual-language selection The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale' s Tongue was published in 2014, and his dual language anthology Leabhar na hAthghabhala / Poems of Repossession in 2016. He lives in Oughterard, Co. Galway.
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ISBN-13: 9781780375946
Published: 25 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 13mm
Pages: 160

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