Patrick Desmond Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh & The Leader: The Poet, the Politician and the Libel Trial

In October 1952 The Leader, a political and cultural magazine published an unsigned `Profile' of the poet, Patrick Kavanagh which he considered offensive. He sued The Leader (and its printer) for damages. The case came to court in February 1954. Former Taoiseach John A. Costello appeared as lead bar...

Patrick Kavanagh

Seamus Heaney has coupled Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) with W.B. Yeats as the two most influential figures in twentieth century Irish poetry. Kavanagh was born in Co. Monaghan, the son of a cobbler-cum-small farmer. He left school at thirteen but continued to educate himself, reading and writing poetr...

The Mystical Imagination of Patrick Kavanagh: A Buttonhole in Heaven?

For Kavanagh, the created world was God-filled and every bit as radiant as the heavenly city of God. His poetry became a radical affirmation of life, of earth, of the human condition and of God's presence everywhere. Conscious that Kavanagh's own view that his poetry is best read ""without comment ...

A Poet's Country: Patrick Kavanagh Selected Prose

While Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was above all a poet, for most of his writing life he was a prolific producer of critical and autobiographical prose. Work for newspapers and magazines was often his main source of income, and provided him with a necessary outlet for his views on the writers of his t...

Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography

This is the first paperback edition of Antoinette Quinn's acclaimed biography of Patrick Kavanagh, the most important Irish poet between the death of Yeats and the rise of Heaney. ""This is, quite simply, a magnificent work of love and scholarship and everybody with any interest in Ireland, and espe...

No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh: An Anthology

Nearly one-half of the poems by the popular Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) have religious themes, images, or allusions. Here Fr. Tom Stack has collected all of these 138 poems and includes extensive introductions and commentaries about them. ""Kavanagh himself said that poetry was a mystical ...

Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as "Tinker's Wife" and "Inniskeen Road: July Evening" to his tragic masterpiece "The Great Hunger" (1942) and his celebratory later verse, "To Hell with Common Sense" and "Come Dance with Ki...

Collected Poems (Norton Library)

Patrick Kavanagh's imagery is drawn from the life of the Irish country poor, which he shared at first hand, and an inner landscape of pain and self-knowledge.His is a unique voice in modern lyrical poetry—ferociously independent, by turns ironic, colloquial, lyrical.

Gaff Topsails

P.j. Kavanagh: Collected Poems

Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement

Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and an Academic Labor Movement

Gaff Topsails

Selected Poems

P.j. Kavanagh: Collected Poems

The Green Fool

Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, his best...