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27%OFFBrendan Kennelly - Guff - 9781852249830 - 9781852249830
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Guff

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Description for Guff Paperback. New book of satirical poetry from Ireland's most popular poet. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 255.
Brendan Kennelly's Guff is both mouthpiece and mouthed off, Devil's advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning. The book of Guff is about words writing the man. Words drive him into the cave of himself where he questions everything including words that seem to constitute answers and answers that question both questions and answers. Do poets write poems or do poems write poets? And consider the shape of that question-mark, like a snake twisting in its sleep: so twisting, or twisted snakes, lie beside Guff as he tries to sleep in his cave, led ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249830
SKU
9781852249830
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About Brendan Kennelly
Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland’s most distinguished and best loved poets, as well as a renowned teacher and cultural commentator. Born in 1936 in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, he was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin for over 30 years, and retired from teaching in 2005. He now lives in Listowel, Co. Kerry. He has published more than ... Read more

Reviews for Guff
'With considerable honesty and bravery Kennelly enters and becomes others in order to perceive, understand and suffer - always moving, probing and doubting, never willing or able to settle on any one certainty - There is clash and conflict, cruelty and irony, sardonic wit, passion' - Aidan Murphy, Sunday Press. 'His poems shine with the wisdom of somebody who has ... Read more

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