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30%OFFRichard Murphy - The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012 - 9781852249861 - 9781852249861
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The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012

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Description for The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012 Paperback. One of Ireland's most distinguished poets, now in his 80s. Expands the scope of his Collected Poems (2000) with new poems and commentary on his best-known work. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 233 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.
Richard Murphy (1927-2018) was one of Ireland’s most distinguished poets, known particularly for poems drawing on the people and history of the west of Ireland with classical rigour and 'unvarnished' clarity. He emerged in the 1950s with John Montague and Thomas Kinsella as one of the three major poets in the new Irish poetic renaissance. The Pleasure Ground expands the scope of his much acclaimed Collected Poems of 2000 to include a selection of new poems along with an appendix featuring illuminating commentary on the historical and personal background of some of his most notable work, including 'The Cleggan Disaster', ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249861
SKU
9781852249861
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About Richard Murphy
Born in 1927 at Milford, near Kilmaine, County Mayo, Richard Murphy spent part of his childhood in Ceylon, where his father was the last British Mayor of Colombo. From the age of eight, he attended boarding schools in Ireland and England, winning a scholarship to Oxford at seventeen. After years of displacement, marriage and divorce, he returned to Inishbofin in ... Read more

Reviews for The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012
One of the truly great things about Richard Murphy's Collected Poems is just how alive the book is to the west of Ireland: its history and people, the landscape, customs and folkways of making a living (as Murphy did) from the sea. But it is not as pastoral that these poems really live; the western islands and the terrain become ... Read more

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