{"title":"Seamus Cashman","description":"Cork born Seamus Cashman is the founder of one of Ireland's leading literary and cultural publishing houses, Wolfhound Press. Previous poetry collections are: \u003cem\u003eCarnival and Clowns\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAcrobats\u003c\/em\u003e. He edited two landmark anthologies for young readers, \u003cem\u003eThe Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People\u003c\/em\u003e (1975), still in print, and \u003cem\u003eSomething Beginning with P: new poems from Irish poets\u003c\/em\u003e (2004). He is a publishing consultant and writing tutor. He lives in Portmarnock.\n","products":[{"product_id":"honouring-the-word-celebrating-maurice-harmon","title":"Honouring the Word: Celebrating Maurice Harmon","description":"This special tribute book celebrates Maurice Harmon on his 80th birthday and features poems from some of Ireland's most famous modern poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a Foreword by Christopher Murray, Emeritus Professor, University College Dublin and Joseph Woods, director of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The critic and poet Maurice Harmon is one of the most gracious figures on the scene, so it wasn’t surprising to see the literati turn out in force for his 80th-birthday celebration in Dublin... 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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It follows his 2015 ekphrastic book length poem, \u003cem\u003eThe Sistine Gaze\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his early collections (\u003cem\u003eCarnival\u003c\/em\u003e, 1987; \u003cem\u003eClowns \u0026amp; Acrobats\u003c\/em\u003e, 2000) with a focus on village life and personal mythologies, the poet found ‘fire crackling faggots \/ at my feet \/ I inhaled its fragrance\/ and forgave myself’. \/ I still could see.’. Here in this fifth collection, the poet is seeing within, is threading the ordinary through the abstract, linking the human via button-holes of experience and philosophy, summiting the uncertain and clearly enjoying possibilities encountered \u003cem\u003eenroute\u003c\/em\u003e. He will experiment, indeed relishes it, as in ‘To the naked woman in the far window’, ‘Be still’, ‘Owl’, ‘Composition’, ‘Fractalities’, ‘Catastrophe turnings’ and others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe closing poem, which is the collection’s energetic title poem, offers a spiral of excitements and images leading readers through and around the impositions, surprises and confusions of time — echoing our failures to seize and size it, and facing the impossibility of ignoring it. We might learn from its over five hundred lines to ‘Just be’, as we watch time abseiling its own rhythms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salmon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45815848534305,"sku":"9781915022219","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/seamus-cashman\/michael-s-begnal.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}