Paula meehan (344 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Painting Rain explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is tearing apart a sustaining ecology. Paula Meehan sifts through the lore and memory available to her: her own journey through life, the small victories and large defeats that shape a world. Hers is an ambitious meditation, from that point where private memory, mythology and ecology meet.The home, the city's heart, neglected suburban battlegrounds, all are shot through with visionary light. In poems of loss, hymns to the empty world, celebrations of people and place, Meehan confronts the darkness that everywhere threatens. These are poems that sustain belief in the power of language to reveal, interrogate and heal.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Painting Rain explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is tearing apart a sustaining ecology. Paula Meehan sifts through the lore and memory available to her: her own journey through life, the small victories and large defeats that shape a world. Hers is an ambitious meditation, from that point where private memory, mythology and ecology meet.The home, the city's heart, neglected suburban battlegrounds, all are shot through with visionary light. In poems of loss, hymns to the empty world, celebrations of people and place, Meehan confronts the darkness that everywhere threatens. These are poems that sustain belief in the power of language to reveal, interrogate and heal.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. This new selection of poems by Paula Meehan resonates with integrity and sympathy. The poet moves from the feminist to the ecological, from the grittier urban spaces of the north side of center-city Dublin to the suburban spaces outside, never leaving the former behind while weaving the gathering themes in a compassionate web. Meehan writes evocatively about gender and class, never losing sight of the lyric purpose of her poems. She blends the comic and tragic as many Irish writers before her have done. In Meehan's poetry, particularly her most recent volumes, nature has historical and personal significance, but it also functions on its own terms. Meehan endeavors to examine the places, public and private, where nature and culture meet. At this intersection she begins to make sense of the suffering of innocents and the powerless, to chart avenues toward liberation, and to salve their psychological and physical wounds by finding poetry in the disappearance and reappearance of the natural world.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Ten poems chosen by Paula Meehan, one of Ireland's major living poets. Our latest publication is a spellbinding selection of modern poems that encompass Ireland's folklore and recent history, alongside enduring themes of ageing, love and childhood. There are poems about 'The Troubles' and about what it means to be Irish, as well as poems about the country's bi-lingual heritage. These are poems that speak plainly and with a directness that will appeal to every reader. We think we can guarantee that both seasoned readers and newcomers to Irish poetry will find plenty to relish in this selection. "She was a song that nobody sings. She was a house ransacked by soldiers. She was a language seldom spoken. She was a child's purse, full of useless things." - from 'Death of an Irishwoman' by Michael Hartnett Paula Meehan has published seven award-winning collections of poetry, which have been translated into many languages. She was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2013-2016 and lives in Dublin. Poems by Eavan Boland, Moya Cannon, Tony Curtis, Michael Hartnett, Brendan Kennelly, Gearoid MacLochlainn, Thomas McCarthy, Paula Meehan, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Leanne O'Sullivan. Cover illustration by Alice Maher. This title builds on the tremendous success of our previous publications 'Ten Poems from Wales' and 'Ten Poems from Scotland'. Paula Meehan's selection of poems by modern Irish poets is strikingly original and will delight every reader with its contrasting reflections on folklore, history, childhood, ageing and love. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: New. Painting Rain explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is tearing apart a sustaining ecology. Paula Meehan sifts through the lore and memory available to her: her own journey through life, the small victories and large defeats that shape a world. Hers is an ambitious meditation, from that point where private memory, mythology and ecology meet. The home, the city's heart, neglected suburban battlegrounds, all are shot through with visionary light. In poems of loss, hymns to the empty world, celebrations of people and place, Meehan confronts the darkness that everywhere threatens. These are poems that sustain belief in the power of language to reveal, interrogate and heal.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Mysteries of the Home gathers into a single volume a selection of poems from Paula Meehans two seminal mid-career collections, The Man who was Marked by Winter (1991) and Pillow Talk (1994), both of which won considerable praise from critics and readers alike. Included here are some of her best-known and best-loved poems - The Pattern, The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks, My Father Perceived as a Vision of St Francis and The Wounded Child among them. They show an artist at the height of her powers producing work of "remarkable candour and .stunning lyricism" (The Colby Quarterly). Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. Besides six collections of poems, the most recent of which are Dharmakaya (2000) and Painting Rain (2009), she has also written plays for both adults and children and conducted residencies in universities, in prisons and in the wider community. Paula Meehan is a member of Aosdana and the recipient of a number of awards, including the Marten Toonder Award for Literature in 1995 and the Denis Devlin Memorial Award in 2001. "Mysteries of the Home" gathers into a single volume a selection of poems from Meehan's two seminal mid-career collections, "The Man who was Marked by Winter" (1991) and "Pillow Talk" (1994), both of which won considerable praise from critics and readers alike. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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