Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.

Author

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan, 1942-

Publication

London : Faber and Faber ; Oldcastle, Ireland : Gallery Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

119 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

A selection and major retrospective of one of Ireland's most distinguished poets, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.

Subject

English poetry > Irish authors > 20th century

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Acts and Monuments (1972) -- Lucina Schynning in Silence of the Nicht -- Ransom -- Wash -- Swineherd -- Celibates -- The Second Voyage -- The Apparition -- Foreseeable Future -- Family -- Lost Star -- Early Recollections -- Deaths and Engines -- Letter to Pearse Hutchinson -- I Saw the Islands in a Ring All Round Me -- from Site of Ambush (1975) -- The Lady's Tower -- The Absent Girl -- Old Roads -- from Site of Ambush: 3. Standing Man -- from Site of Ambush: 6. Voyagers -- The New Atlantis -- The Prisoner Thinks about the Stars -- Odysseus Meets the Ghosts of the Women -- from The Rose-Geranium (1981) -- Night Journeys -- from Cork: 1. The island, with its hooked ... -- from Cork: 3. A slot of air, the snug ... -- from Cork: 4. Missing from the scene ... -- from Cork: 6. A Gentleman's Bedroom -- Seamus Murphy, Died October 2nd 1975 -- The Last Glimpse of Erin -- He Hangs in Shades the Orange Bright -- March 18th 1977 -- from The Rose-Geranium: 3 When she opened the egg the wise woman ... -- from The Rose-Geranium: 4 'A l'usage de M. et Mme van Gramberen' ... -- from The Rose-Geranium: 12 So rarely we lie ... -- from The Rose-Geranium: 15 Linked by precious chains ... -- from The Rose-Geranium: 16 Because this is the age of his life ... -- from The Rose-Geranium: 17 Amelia ... -- from The Rose-Geranium: 18 I run my hand along the clean wood ... -- from The Magdalene Sermon (1989) -- Pygmalion's Image -- The Pig-boy -- Permafrost Woman -- Street -- MacMoransbridge -- London -- River, with Boats -- The Italian Kitchen -- Quarant' Ore -- A Voice -- In Rome -- J'ai Mal a nos Dents -- St Mary Magdalene Preaching at Marseilles -- The Informant -- from The Brazen Serpent (1994) -- Fireman's Lift -- The Architectural Metaphor -- The Real Thing -- All for You -- The Water Journey -- Passing Over in Silence -- St Margaret of Cortona -- Our Lady of Youghal -- No Loads/No Clothing/Allowed/in the Library -- Home Town -- Following -- Woman Shoeing a Horse -- Daniel Grose -- Vierge Ouvrante -- Man Watching a Woman -- The Pastoral Life -- The Party Wall -- That Summer -- The Secret -- A Witness -- A Hand, A Wood -- Studying the Language -- from The Girl who Married the Reindeer (2001) -- Kilcash -- The Crossroads -- Anchoress -- The Angel in the Stone -- The Cloister of Bones -- Peace in the Mountains -- In Her Other House -- In Her Other Ireland -- The Girl who Married the Reindeer -- Translation -- Bessboro -- Troubler -- The Crevasse -- Autun -- Crossing the Loire -- After Leopardi's Storm -- Tower of Storms, Island of Tides -- The Bend in the Road -- The Horses of Meaning -- A Capitulary -- Inheriting the Books -- At My Aunt Blanaid's Cremation -- Agnes Bernelle, 1923-1999 -- Borders -- Gloss/Clos/Glas.

ISBN

• 9780571238248 (pbk.)
• 0571238246 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library