{"title":"Paula Meehan","description":"Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Eastern Washington University in the U.S. She has received many awards, including the Marten Toonder Award for Literature, The Butler Literary Award for Poetry, the Denis Devlin Memorial Award and the PPI Award for Radio Drama. She has published five collections of poetry, the most recent being \u003cem\u003eDharmakaya\u003c\/em\u003e, while her latest, \u003cem\u003ePainting Rain\u003c\/em\u003e, is due in early 2009. A selected volume, entitled \u003cem\u003eMysteries of the Home\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1996. Her writing for stage includes the plays \u003cem\u003eMrs Sweeney\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eCell\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), and, for children, \u003cem\u003eKirkle\u003c\/em\u003e (1995), \u003cem\u003eThe Voyage\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) and \u003cem\u003eThe Wolf of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e (2003\/2004). Her poetry has been set to music by artists as diverse as the avant-garde composer John Wolf Brennan and the folksinger Christy Moore. She has collaborated throughout her working life with dancers, visual artists and film makers. Paula Meehan is a member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of writers and artists. \n","products":[{"product_id":"the-white-page-an-bhileog-bhan-twentieth-century-irish-women-poets-2007-edition","title":"The White Page \/ An Bhileog Bhan: Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets (2007 Edition)","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe White Page\/An Bhileog Bhán\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive study of Irish women's poetry published in book form in the twentieth century. It takes the form of an extended annotated directory, including biographical and bibliographical detail on each poet. Poems and photographs, generously donated by the poets themselves, are also included. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoets born in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as poets of Irish ancestry and non-nationals who have been resident and writing in Ireland for long periods are included. A reference book for students of Irish literature it is also a poetry anthology representing poets who have published at least one collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent anthology and critical, bibliographical and biographical directory. Salmon, who have contributed enormously to making poetry a popular and regular shopping commodity, have excelled themselves. For every shelf.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe White Page\/An Bhileog Bhán\u003c\/i\u003e is beautifully produced, and testifies to McBreen's dedication to and enthusiasm for Irish women writers. Every fan of poetry and women's writing will find their own surprises and pleasures in this collection, which marks a particular historic moment in Irish literature. This anthology offers a wealth of information about the publishing history of women poets since the 1970s, when only 13 of the contributors were in print... Of the 113 poets McBreen catalogues, more than half published their first collections in the 1990s. Salmon, which publishes this volume, has published more first collections by women than any single publisher during that decade.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This must-have for thorough poetry collections offers samples of more than a hundred Irish women poets who have published at least one volume of poetry. It's comprehensiveness alone would make it an invaluable introduction to an enormously creative community of poets... The first lady of Irish letters, Eavan Boland, joins Mary Dorcey, Medbh McGuckian, Iris Murdoch, and scores of others better known in their homeland than in America. Just one poem by each poet appears, which leaves the reader wanting more, but extensive biographic and bibliographic annotation compensate somewhat. A candy sampler of a book for poetry lovers.\"\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Monaghan, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor \u003cb\u003eJoan McBreen\u003c\/b\u003e's 2009 publications include a collection, \u003ci\u003eHeather Island\u003c\/i\u003e and the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. 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What was surprising was that he now has eight decades behind him, because Harmon has the appearance of perennial youth. Fittingly, Christopher Murray, a colleague from UCD, where Harmon taught poetry for decades, reminded the throng that we were also celebrating the talents of a man still very much in harness. 'Maurice’s own work as a poet is an extension of his work as a life-long lover of and commentator on poetry, especially Irish poetry from earliest times to the present.'...\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, June 2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to being a poet, \u003cb\u003eMaurice Harmon\u003c\/b\u003e is the leading scholar-critic of his generation in the field of Anglo-Irish Literature. He pioneered its development as an academic discipline and is the author of a number of significant works, from a basic bibliographical guide to headline studies of Seán O’Faoláin, Austin Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, and others. He edited the definitive anthology \u003ci\u003eIrish Poetry after Yeats\u003c\/i\u003e (1978, 1998) and published \u003ci\u003eThe Dialogue of the Ancients of Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), a new translation of Acallam na Senórach. 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Here is a big book of many poems, all inspired, devoted, motivated by a sacred bond that happens, the supreme privilege, that something far bigger than romance - a relationship with a dog. Dogs do sing; they also smile, socialise, engage and celebrate, mark a homecoming in proper style, even if it’s only the return from the local grocery store; they sigh, but most of all they understand, they grieve, they mourn, they empathise, they remember...\"\u003cbr\u003eEileen Battersby, Arts Writer \u0026amp; Literary Correspondent, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish?Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessie Lendennie\u003c\/b\u003e's prose poem \u003ci\u003eDaughter\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1988, followed in 1990 by \u003ci\u003eThe Salmon Guide to Poetry Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1992 by \u003ci\u003eThe Salmon Guide to Creative Writing in Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e. 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In 2009 she compiled and edited \u003ci\u003ePoetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041064872,"sku":"9781907056505","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_0f5bc08b-60ea-43de-b3ed-986aa6299f0d.jpeg?v=1752238167"},{"product_id":"mysteries-of-the-home","title":"Mysteries of the Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMysteries of the Home\u003c\/em\u003e gathers together a selection of poems from Paula Meehan’s two seminal collections, \u003cem\u003eThe Man who was Marked by Winter\u003c\/em\u003e (1991) and \u003cem\u003ePillow Talk\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), both published by Gallery Press. Included here are some of her best-known and best-loved poems: ‘The Pattern’, ‘The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks’, ‘My Father Perceived as a Vision of St Francis’ and ‘The Wounded Child’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A transformative writing which seeks to turn the skin inside out and discover a different kind of heart.”\u003cbr\u003eKevan Johnson, \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaula Meehan\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1955 in Dublin, where she still lives. Her most recent collections – \u003cem\u003eDharmakaya\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) and \u003cem\u003ePainting Rain\u003c\/em\u003e (2009) – are both published by Carcanet. Her work also appears in the Carcanet anthology \u003cem\u003eThree Irish Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (2003, alongside Mary O’Malley and Eavan Boland). 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A great deal has changed in the world in the arc of time covered by these poems, and those changes are noted and considered by poems that are remarkable for their clear-eyed witness. Meehan’s devotion to, and mastery of, her craft, has always been one of the key signatures of her work, as has been her immersion in her beloved native Dublin. In her Selected Poems we see this and more — her uncompromising engagement with the politics of gender and class, her love of the natural world and her grief at what threatens it, her holistic and visionary impulse to bless the creation, to be grateful for her place in it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dedalus Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32629545500750,"sku":"9781910251775","price":17.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/As-If-By-Magic.jpg?v=1752241499"},{"product_id":"the-solace-of-artemis","title":"The Solace of Artemis","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatterns and patterning - cellular, celestial, social, political and personal - spin and weave through Paula Meehan's new collection of poems. 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