Title: Smashing the piano /
Authors: Montague, John.
Publisher: Gallery Books,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Ireland Poetry.
Abstract: "Smashing the Piano, John Montague's first book of poems since the publication of Collected Poems, suggests the full range of his styles, subjects and concerns. It includes sequences which explore the troubled face of love ('Dark Rooms') and politics ('Civil Wars') as well as translations from Irish and French and lyrics with a lighter, playful touch."--Jacket.
Contents: Paths -- Within -- Fairy Fort -- Still Life, with Aunt Brigid -- Kindertotenlieder: Time Off -- Kindertotenlieder: Crossroads -- Prayers for My Daughters: Le Bain -- Prayers for My Daughters: Guardians -- Prayers for My Daughters: Last Chance -- Prayers for My Daughters: The Sick Bird -- Between -- The Current -- Dark Room: Wrath -- Dark Room: Nightjar -- Dark Room: Lying Figure -- Dark Room: Stand In -- Dark Room: The Blade -- Dark Room: Postscript -- Dark Room: Chain Letter -- Honey Harvest -- Brighid O'Neill -- Talking with Victor Hugo, in Old Age -- There are Days -- Dumbshow -- Poor Poll -- Captain Greacen -- The Yachtsman's Jacket -- Claddagh Raga -- Robert, Old Stager -- Summer School -- In the Pool -- A New Art -- On Hearing Kamaladevi Speak Again -- Araby, 1984 -- Sun Hymn -- A Charm for Europe -- Sonnet on the Opening of Wrixon's Wine Cellar -- The Two Seans: Sean O Riordain -- The Two Seans: Sean O Riada -- Sweet & Sour -- Starspill -- Raptors: Conservatives -- Raptors: Nature -- Raptors: Balor -- Remission -- Flower, Stone, Sea: The Smell of the Earth -- Flower, Stone, Sea: Flowers -- Flower, Stone, Sea: At Teilhard de Chardin's Grave -- Flower, Stone, Sea: Lullaby -- Flower, Stone, Sea: The Well-wrought Urn -- The Family Piano -- Looking Glass -- The Straying Blackthorn -- Civil Wars: Unapproved -- Civil Wars: Internment -- Civil Wars: Shadow -- Civil Wars: Sands -- Civil Wars: Place Names -- Civil Wars: Weeds -- Civil Wars: A Response to Omagh -- Civil Wars: Sunny Jim -- Magic Carpet -- Lost Words -- Landing.