Three Irish Poets

"In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential selection of some 40 pages from the work of the poets. Each contributes a short personal statement and a bibliography."

Introduction by Eavan Boland

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Paula Meehan

From The Man Who Was Marleed by Winter (1991)

Lullaby

5

(1)

The Pattern

6

(3)

Child Burial

9

(1)

The Dark Twin

10

(2)

Well

12

(1)

From Pillow Talk (1994)

My Father Perceived as a Vision of St Francis City

12

(4)

Hearth

14

(1)

Night Walk

14

(1)

Man Sleeping

15

(1)

Full Moon

15

(1)

On the Warpath

16

(1)

Would you jump into my grave as quick?

16

(1)

Folktale

17

(1)

Blessing

17

(1)

Home

18

(1)

From Dharmakaya (2000)

Dharmakaya

19

(1)

The View from Under the Table

20

(1)

Take a breath. Hold it. Let it go.

21

(1)

Ectopic

22

(1)

The Bog of Moods

23

(1)

On Poetry

Virgin

24

(1)

Mother

25

(1)

Whore

26

(1)

It Is All I Ever Wanted

27

(1)

Suburb

Desire Path

28

(1)

Stood Up

29

(1)

Jjirolatry

29

(1)

Stink Bomb

30

(1)

Mistle Thrush

30

(1)

Sudden Rain

31

(1)

Malice Aforethought

31

(1)

The Tantric Master

32

(1)

A Woman's Right to Silence

33

(6)

May O'Malley

From A Consideration of Silk (1990)

Credo

39

(1)

Hormones

40

(1)

The Spiralling Song

41

(1)

From Where the Rocks Float (1993)

Tribute

42

(1)

The Shape of Saying

42

(1)

Cornered

43

(1)

Porpoises

44

(1)

Tracing

45

(1)

Canvas Currach

46

(1)

From The Knife in the Wave (1997)

The Annunciation

47

(1)

Song of the Wise Woman

48

(1)

The Otter Woman

48

(2)

Couplets

50

(1)

The Wound

51

(1)

Interior

52

(1)

A Touch of Sass

53

(1)

Meditation on the Long Walk

53

(1)

From Asylum Road (2001)

The Dark House

54

(1)

These Are Not Sweet Girls

55

(2)

Captain Roque

57

(1)

The Loose Alexandrines

57

(1)

Anubis in Oghery

58

(1)

Ceres in Caherlistrane

59

(1)

In the Name of God and of the Dead Generations

60

(2)

The Joiner's Bench

62

(1)

The Poet's Lover Names her Price

62

(2)

From The Boning Hall (2002)

The Boning Hall

64

(1)

The Wineapple

64

(2)

Prescribing the Pill

66

(1)

Welsh Pastoral

67

(1)

The Man of Aran

68

(1)

Billie

69

(1)

Pegeen Mike's Farewell to the Playboy

69

(1)

The Art of House Maintenance

70

(1)

Songs from the Beehive

Autumn

71

(1)

Winter

72

Eavan Boland

From New Territory (1967)

Athene's Song

79

(1)

From The War Horse (1975)

The War Horse

80

(1)

From Night Feed (1982)

Night Feed

81

(1)

From The Journey (1986)

Mise Eire

82

(1)

Listen. This is the Noise of Myth

83

(3)

The Emigrant Irish

86

(1)

The Journey

86

(3)

From Outside History (1990)

The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me

89

(1)

The Achill Woman

90

(2)

From In a Time of Violence (1994)

That the Science of Cartography is Limited

92

(1)

Lava Cameo

93

(1)

Love

94

(1)

The Pomegranate

95

(2)

Anna Liffey

97

(6)

The Dolls' Museum in Dublin

103

(1)

From The Lost Land (1998)

The Blossom

104

(1)

Formal Feeling

105

(2)

Mother Ireland

107

(1)

The Necessity for Irony

108

(1)

From Code (2001)

Thanked be Fortune

109

(1)

How We Made a New Art on Old Ground

110

(1)

Quarantine

111

(1)

Irish Poetry

112

(1)

Select Bibliography

113

(2)

Index of First Lines

115

(3)

Index of Titles

118

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