My flirtation with international socialism
By: Gerry Murphy
Publisher: Dedalus; Dedalus Books Limited
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781906614294
Subjects: Literature; English poetry; Irish authors
Description: Gerry Murphy proves himself to be one of the most inquisitive and unconventional of contemporary Irish poets, moving from the blink-and-you've-missed-it one-line observation to the more considered and affecting poems (not least those of love and loss) which are among his great strengths.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: New Arrivals Eighth Circle --; title: The King --; title: April Morning, English Market --; title: Farewell to a Pagan --; title: Capaneus --; title: The Monks --; title: Lunch at The Farm Gate --; title: Purgatory --; title: At Mount Melleray --; title: Sweeney's Bower --; title: After Reading Geoffrey Hill --; title: Reading With Delanty --; title: Thursday July 31st 1800 --; title: In the Retirement Home --; title: It Takes All Types --; title: Appeal --; title: In Mid-Stream --; title: Free Kick --; title: Three Borgesean Fragments --; title: Unbestimmtheit --; title: A Book of Hours --; title: Only a Matter of Time --; title: No Time Like the Present ... --; title: No Time Like the Present ... --; title: A Random History of the Desmond Rebellion --; title: Epigram for a Windy Night --; title: A Difficult Guest --; title: Venetian Epigrams --; title: The Way Forward --; title: Memories of El Jefe' and the Cuban Revolution --; title: Red Cavalry in the Rain --; title: Militia Women --; title: Night and the Muse --; title: Morning in Cefalu --; title: Septet at the End of Time --; title: Matins --; title: Three Rooms --; title: My Flirtation with International Socialism --; title: Do Not Resuscitate --; title: Mayakovsky's `Testament' --; title: Particle Entanglement for Beginners --; title: Wine, Love & Death --; title: A Thought from Propertius --; title: Bedside Manner --; title: Haiku for Bonnie --; title: Haiku for Deirdre --; title: The Seasons --; title: Solstice --; title: The Childhood of Columbus --; title: Still Out There --; title: Lost at Sea --; title: For the Poets --; title: On the Eve of his Eightieth Birthday --; title: Tholla Bhriste.