Research Catalog

Title

The cold Irish earth : new and selected poems of Ireland, 1965-1995 / Knute Skinner.

Author

Skinner, Knute, 1929-

Publication

Knockeven, Co. Clare, Ireland : Salmon Pub. ; Chester Springs, PA : U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions, 1996.

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Details

Description

118 p.; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Salmon poetry

Uniform Title

Salmon poetry.

Subjects

• Poésie
• Poetry
• poetry
• Ireland > Poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Cold Irish Earth -- October Morning -- Fall 1965 -- The Unfinished Poem -- The Cow -- A View from Lahinch -- To Leave Newsweek Behind -- Our Water Supply -- The Smells of the Body -- Two North Clare Monologues: The Springs on the Hill -- Two North Clare Monologues: A Sore Throat -- April-June 1968 -- A Four Days' Rain -- In Dinosaur Country -- Rimbaud in Heat -- Further Frustrations of Rimbaud -- Barking -- Bullocks -- A Tour of the Garden -- On Hide -- A Mixed Blessing -- Two Views of My Study -- For Rimbaud (1965-1978) -- The Mastodon in the Wall -- A Lucky Day -- Returning to Rimbaud -- We Go to the Village for Milk -- The News -- The Back of His Neck -- A Double Monopoly Game -- A Grey Day in July -- Appearances -- August 2, 1983 -- August 15, 1983 -- Grasscutters -- Images -- In Miltown Malbay -- Molly -- Manure Bags -- The Field Across the Road -- February in Bellingham -- This Morning -- At Ease -- The World at Eleven -- Rice, Mayor and Waterford -- Introduction to a Pub in Limerick -- Letter to James Liddy -- Imagine Grass -- The Beautiful White Cow -- Hearing of the Hard Times -- Tayto Crisps -- My Photograph on a Book Cover -- Yeats -- At the Caravan Party -- A Town -- A Pressed Blue Suit -- Watching the Match -- Carrying On -- A Letter Home from the Tyrone Guthrie Centre -- A Small Construction Site in County Monaghan -- The Compliments -- A Dirty Smudge -- A Few Words -- Keeping Warm -- The Match -- More Tea -- Neighbours -- On the Hour -- Pints -- Stale Biscuits -- A Teapot with Character -- A Walk in the Rain -- The Weather Report -- What to Say.

ISBN

• 1897648685 (pbk.)
• 1897648839

LCCN

^^^97182788^

OCLC

36281067

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library