Elegies & Epiphanies
Subtitle: Selected Poems
Publisher: Lagan Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9781904652212
Description: Collection of poems by Hugh McFadden, drawn from two previous collections (Cities of Mirrors, 1984, and Pieces of Time, 2004), together with previously uncollected poems published in magazine & e-zines.
Notes: Contents

(Titles of Elegies & Epiphanies: Selected Poems)

  1 …………………… Poem
  2 …………………… Sixties’ Flashbacks                                 
  3 …………………… One-Two
  4 …………………… Not Quite Together
  5 …………………… November
  6 …………………… Demolition Dublin
  7 …………………… For Justin O’Mahony
  8 …………………… December
  9 …………………… Moon Shots & Other Shots
10 …………………… I Get
11 …………………… Still-Life
12 …………………… Hotel Irlande
13 …………………… Parting
14 …………………… Just Before the Dawn
15 …………………… A Black Cat Purred & Padded Around Shelley’s Grave
16 …………………… On the Death of Keats
17 …………………… Elegy for a City
18 …………………… Sudden Death
19 …………………… Second Birthday Outing
20 …………………… On His Own Two Feet
21 …………………… After the Islington of Patrick Kavanagh
22 …………………… To the Girl Who Insisted
23 …………………… White Heat in Heraklion
24 …………………… Bar Obscene
25 …………………… Among the Birds of Dublin 6
26 …………………… Party Piece
27 …………………… Morning Dream
28 …………………… For Margaret Gillespie, My Mother
29 …………………… White in Black
30 …………………… Two, Mirrored
31 …………………… Torn Lace
32 …………………… Night Messenger
33 …………………… Sight Regained
34 …………………… An Old Haunt
35 …………………… Minstrel Boy
36 …………………… Elizabeth
37 …………………… Jorge Luis Borges
38 …………………… The Sultan’s Fountain Outside the Walls of Topkapi Palace
39 …………………… To All High-Wire Artistes
40 …………………… Lilliput Land
41 …………………… Wake-Up Call
42 …………………… On Reading Akhmatova
43 …………………… Annaghmakerrig Lyric
44 …………………… Blue for Real
45 …………………… Folk Lore
46 …………………… Spring in Hiroshima
47 …………………… January Promise
48 …………………… Evening Shadows
49 …………………… The Fall By Starlight
50 …………………… Remembering Luke Kelly
51 …………………… When I Think of You
52 …………………… Underground Water
53 …………………… Remembering P.K.
54 …………………… J.J.
55 …………………… Three Autumn Haiku
56 …………………… Memo to Erick O’Shaughnessy
57 …………………… Self-Portrait in a Dublin Winter
58 …………………… Sometime in the Present
59 …………………… Ode to an Orange
60 …………………… Rosa Mutabilis
61 …………………… On a High Frequency
62 …………………… Spring Haiku
63 …………………… Easter Renewal
64 …………………… Letter from the Hibernian Way
65 …………………… Remembering Allen Ginsberg
66 …………………… Transcendent Garden
67 …………………… Lines Written in my Easy Chair
68 …………………… Cut Sunflowers
69 …………………… A Lament for Michael Hartnett
70 …………………… The One After 2:18
71 …………………… To What Far Ends
72 …………………… Travelling With Patrick Kavanagh
73 …………………… Walking in Yellow Leaves
74 …………………… Approaching Advent
75 …………………… Winter Sun
76 …………………… Is Now
77 …………………… Reading Ride On
78 …………………… War Rhetoric & Rock’n’Roll
79 …………………… A Message to a Fearful America
80 …………………… Soft Machines in Iraq
81 …………………… The Attraction of Opposites
82 …………………… Walking a Blue and Red Razor’s Edge
83 …………………… High Art & Low Life

84 …………………… Posthumous Letter To An Old Friend

Contents
(Selected Poems 3)

85 ……………………… Michael Hartnett’s Quatrain Blues
86 ……………………… Sporting Life Blues
87 ……………………… Multifarious Nominal
88 ……………………… At the bole of my cherry tree
89 ……………………… Even the Birds Are Still
90 ……………………… Move Over Mr L.
91 ……………………… Late News, Just In
92 ……………………… Post-Shematic Stress
93 ……………………… Poldy Lives!
94 ……………………… On a Wing and a Prayer
95 ……………………… Transfixed by McNeil’s Nebula in Orion
96 ……………………… Below the Bridge