Collected Poems: Padraic Fallon

The enormous talent of celebrated Irish Padraic Fallon is demonstrated in this volume, which includes early poems (1930–1945), poems of maturity (1946–1959), late poems (1960–1974), and poems from plays, translations, and versions of Homeric Hymns and Ballads. This replaces 0856358177.

Padraic Fallon was a poet, radio dramatist, storywriter, and essayist. He refused to collect and publish his poems until shortly before his death, when he prepared Poems and Poems and Versions.

Introduction

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Writing on the Wall

1

(1)

Yeats's Tower at Ballylee

2

(4)

Maris Stella

6

(2)

Poem for my Mother

8

(7)

Pot Shot

15

(1)

Vowels

15

(1)

Dialogue Between Raftery and Death

16

(7)

Maud Gonne

23

(3)

Book of Job

26

(1)

A Flask of Brandy

27

(1)

The Head

28

(4)

Coastal Waters

Holy Well

32

(1)

The Dwelling

32

(1)

Day Ashore

33

(1)

Tradesmen's Entrance

Love

34

(1)

Peasantry

35

(1)

The Poems of Love

35

(1)

Meeting

36

(1)

Field Observation

37

(1)

Johnstown Castle

38

(3)

A Look in the Mirror

41

(1)

March Twenty-six

42

(1)

River Lane

43

(3)

The River Walk

46

(1)

A Public Appointment

47

(2)

An Island

49

(1)

Weir Bridge

49

(1)

Gowran Park, Autumn Meeting

50

(1)

The Young Fenians

51

(1)

Capricornian

51

(2)

A Visit West

53

(2)

Boyne Valley

55

(3)

Kiltartan Legend

58

(1)

Years at Athenry Perhaps

59

(3)

Stop on the Road to Ballylee

62

(2)

On the Tower Stairs

64

(2)

The Small Town of John Coan

66

(3)

The Christmas Vigil

69

(2)

Coat of Arms

71

(2)

Magna Mater

73

(1)

For Paddy Mac

74

(3)

Lost Man

77

(1)

Special for Nancy's Mother

78

(2)

Brigid her Eve

80

(1)

Lost Man in Me

81

(2)

Lakshmi

83

(2)

Three Houses

Gutteen

85

(2)

Shanballard

87

(2)

Knockroe

89

(1)

Sunday Morning

90

(1)

Trevaylor

91

(1)

Painting of My Father

92

(3)

Curragh, November Meeting

95

(1)

Athenry

96

(3)

The Small Town of John Coan (2)

Remand

99

(1)

Maud Gonne

99

(1)

Genius Loci

100

(1)

Encounter

100

(1)

Heureux Qui Comme Ulysse

101

(1)

'She'd thumbed her way from the source'

101

(1)

'Sometimes I'd like to write: "Dear Helen,'

102

(1)

'Comment: when the bare'

102

(1)

'He'll come back, stand exactly here -'

103

(1)

'Clubbed by the evening bell'

103

(1)

'He puts back on his severed head'

104

(1)

'Delicate'

104

(1)

'Summer and a liquid bird'

105

(1)

A Certain Person

105

(1)

Body

106

(1)

A Bit of Brass

107

(1)

Duddy's Wall

108

(2)

The Skellig Way

110

(1)

Three Poems

110

(3)

Yesterday's Man

113

(2)

Name Plate

115

(1)

Argo Left

116

(1)

Dardanelles 1916

117

(1)

One Easter Morning

117

(1)

Encounter at Penshurst

118

(1)

Homeric Hymns

The Stealing of Apollo's Cattle

119

(4)

Rape of Persephone

123

(1)

To Pan

124

(1)

After Pindar

The Hyperboreans

125

(1)

The Infant Heracles

126

(1)

After Theocritus

With the Gift of a Distaff

127

(1)

After Callimachus

Erysichton

128

(2)

After Horace

Solvitur Acris Hiems

130

(1)

After the Archpoet

Confessio

131

(4)

After Gérard de Nerval

Vers Dorés

135

(1)

After Baudelaire

The Cat

135

(1)

Parfum Exotique

136

(1)

A Bird for Nancy

136

(1)

Two Mallarmé Things for Sue

137

(1)

After Rimbaud

Ma Bohême

138

(1)

O Saisons, O Châteaux

139

(1)

After the Medieval Irish

Columcille the Scribe

140

(1)

Biographical Note

141

(3)

Notes on the Poems

144

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