{"title":"Thomas McCarthy","description":"Thomas McCarthy was born in Co. Waterford in 1954 and educated at University College, Cork. He has published six collections of poetry, two novels and a memoir. He has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the American-Irish Foundation’s Literary Award, and the O’Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. He has worked for Cork City Libraries since 1987.","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. His poetry collections are: \u003ci\u003eThe Last Regatta\u003c\/i\u003e (Salmon, 2001), \u003ci\u003eThe Doll with Two Backs\u003c\/i\u003e (Salmon, 2004), \u003ci\u003eThe Mischievous Boy and other poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Salmon, 2008), and \u003ci\u003eWhen Love Is Not Enough: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Salmon, 2010).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041055672,"sku":"9781907056482","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_7e10eadf-e00a-4a93-ab63-9af8ce5ca2b2.jpeg?v=1752238028"},{"product_id":"poetry-ireland-review-issue-92","title":"Poetry Ireland Review Issue 92","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIncludes poems by\u003cstrong\u003e Fergus Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eThomas McCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGerard Smyth\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eKerry Hardie\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eFred Johnston\u003c\/strong\u003e, alongside translations by \u003cstrong\u003eGabriel Rosenstock\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBelinda Cooke\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMaurice Harmon\u003c\/strong\u003e’s essay ‘Journey into Poetry’ and reviews of Sydney Bernard Smith, Francis Harvey and Galway Kinnell. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poetry Ireland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":9266563461,"sku":"9781902121307","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/Poetry_Ireland_Issue_92.jpg?v=1752239308"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/thomas-mccarthy\/gerard-smyth.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}