Selected Poems

Kinsella Thomas

Thomas Kinsella is among the most distinguished modern poets. His work over fifty years has challenged and enriched the poetic landscape. Rooted in locality, Kinsella's poetry employs myth and modernism in explorations that range from intense lyricism to political satire and social commentary. This representative selection of the poetry he has published from 1956 to 2006 invites readers to explore the range of his poetic world.

Reviews

"Thomas Kinsella is the most important and the most compendious Irish poet since Yeats" – Thomas H. Jackson, "The Whole Matter: The Poetic Evolution of Thomas Kinsella"

"Among those poets writing in English today there is none surpassing Thomas Kinsella" – Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

"...more interested in statement than image, these poems draw on family and biography and are unusually concerned with moral authority" – John McAuliffe

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