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1	Irish Verse, the Penguin Book of: Second Edition more books like this by Various, Brendan Kennelly (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology of verse illustrates the origins and development of the Irish poetic tradition. From the 17th century to the present day, the poetry of Ireland is testimony to the power of the imagination to withstand systematic oppression and the forces of history. In this selection Brendan Kennelly has chosen to emphasize the fusion of Irish and ... see all copies from $1.99! SVS
2	Blood Wedding more books like this by Federico Garcia Lorca, Brendan Kennelly (Translator) add to wishlist This is a play written by the Spanish poet and dramatist who was murdered by Nationalist partisans in July 1936, shortly after the outbreak of Civil War. Commissioned and performed by the highly acclaimed Communicado Theatre Company, this translation won a Fringe First at the 1988 Edinburgh Festival. see all copies from $4.83! new only from $8.29!
3	Now more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist Now is a fast and frenzied meditation on time, ageing, alienation and the pressures of living in the modern city. Each triplet in this book-length poetry sequence addresses the question: What is 'now'? With the brevity of a proverb, each three-liner offers a short, sharp perception which tries to capture or just grasp at the sliding identities of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Familiar Strangers: New and Selected Poems 1960-2004 more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist Familiar Strangers is Brendan Kennelly's own selection from over 20 poetry books written over five decades. This landmark volume replaces his earlier selections A Time for Voices, Breathing Spaces and Begin. But Kennelly has revisited his life work, re-scoring familiar and estranged pieces into new gatherings which reflect his preoccupations more ... see all copies from $7.56! new only from $15.61! \| first editions
5	Martial Art more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist This playful poet is alive and kicking. He is a satirist trying to define generosity, happiness and love, with scurrilous candor and piercing clarity in brief punchy poems. But no matter how savage his attacks, he is always playful and compassionate. He is a sharp, visionary writer who knows the world about him and is in touch with the world ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $13.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Journey Into Joy: Selected Prose more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist Kennelly writes on writers--Yeats, Joyce, O'Casey, MacNeice, Kavanagh, Austin Clarke, Frank O'Connor, Flann O'Brien, Liam O'Flaherty, Derek Mahon, Joseph Plunkett, and George Moore. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $18.00! \| first editions
7	Reservoir Voices more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other ways of being in the world. The riddling poems of "Reservoir Voices" add a further dimension to these explorations, inspired by an autumn sojourn in America ... see all copies from $10.42! new only from $10.42! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Penguin book of Irish verse more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	The Little Book of Judas more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist see all copies from $7.07! new only from $17.20! \| SVS
10	Sophocles' Antigone more books like this by Brendan Kennelly (Translator), Sophocles add to wishlist see all copies from $2.98! new only from $2.98!
11	Glimpses more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $24.76! \| first editions
12	Dark Fathers Into Light: Brendan Kennelly more books like this by Brendan Kennelly, Richard Pine (Editor) add to wishlist Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most distinguished and prolific poets, lecturers, and broadcasters. He achieved international recognition with his poetry epics Cromwell and The Book of Judas. He has published twenty books of poetry and has written four powerful verse plays on women's themes, as well as two novels and a substantial body of ... see all copies from $4.05! new only from $16.94! \| first editions
13	When Then Is Now: Three Greek Tragedies more books like this by Brendan Kennelly (Editor) add to wishlist "When Then is Now" brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies. All three plays dramatise timeless human dilemmas as relevant now as they were in ancient times. All focus on women whose lives are torn apart by war, family conflict and despotic regimes. In his preface, Brendan Kennelly describes how writing these ... see all copies from $11.98! new only from $45.16!
14	A Time for Voices: Selected Poems 1960-1990 more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist see all copies from $3.14! new only from $22.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Between Innocence and Peace: Favorite Poems of Ireland more books like this by Brendan Kennelly (Compiled by) add to wishlist In this anthology of poems of Ireland the great bards of the past rub shoulders with lesser-known poets of our time; established poets have their work juxtaposed with familiar lines whose authors have faded from memory. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Breathing Spaces: Early Poems more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Voices from a Journal more books like this by Bill Naughton, Brendan Kennelly (Foreword by) add to wishlist Bill Naughton (1910-1992) is best known for his novel Alfie, but he also wrote a number of plays and three volumes of autobiography. This is a writer's journal of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. In it Naughton describes his friendships with many fine writers-including Frank O'Connor, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W.R. Rodgers-painters, and others. ... see all copies from $3.50! first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Poetry My Arse more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist Kennelly followed his shocking epic poem Cromwell with the even more notorious Book of Judas, which topped the Irish bestsellers list. This new piece of mischief out-Judases Cromwell, sinking its teeth into the pants of poetry itself. Here, the author plays devil's advocate, exploring the 'poetryworlds' of one Ace de Horner who is slowly going ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
19	Joycechoyce: The Poems in Verse and Prose of James Joyce more books like this by A. Norman Jeffares, Brendan Kennelly (Editor), James Joyce add to wishlist Two scholars present James Joyce's work to emphasize not only his humanity but the humour underlying it. Joyce had a continuous and successful struggle to discover a language that could convey laughter and music, images and ideas. He looked back at his own past, and that of oral and literary traditions. Drawing on key passages from "Dubliners" to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.00! \| first editions
20	Real Ireland: People & Landscape: Photographs more books like this by Brendan Kennelly, Liam Blake add to wishlist see all copies from $4.80! first editions \| SVS
21	Medea more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
22	The Crooked Cross by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist see all copies from $2.19!
23	Euripides' the Trojan Women: A New Version more books like this by Brendan Kennelly (Translator) add to wishlist Euripides shocked his audiences by portraying their great heroes as cruel and cowardly. His drama The Trojan Women is one of the most powerful indictments of war ever written. In this new version Kennelly gives the play a twentieth century edge. Usually the Trojan women have been seen as passive victims at the whimsical mercy of their male ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $24.00!
24 view cover	Begin more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist Here are poems about ignorance and learning, the good and the bad, men and women, the Dubliners he's known and the country people he grew up with, politicians and killers with causes. Kennelly hears echoes of violence, childhood, love, history, hurt, and laughter, but with recurring hints of some hope in self-renewal -- and with each poem setting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.00! \| first editions
25	The boats are home more books like this by Brendan Kennelly add to wishlist see all copies from $7.50! first editions

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