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- Book Synopsis
- Peter McDonald invokes and explores the pastoral imagination, in love-poems and poems about grief, poems concerning remote history and the more recent past, and poems which find new shapes for our difficult, sometimes contradictory, relations to place and environment. Some longer pieces bring together these concerns: 'The Victory Weekend' sets the London VE-Day anniversary celebrations in 1995 against an adolescence in Belfast, while 'Eclogue' (an updating of Virgil) brings to post-Peace Process Belfast a debate between the exile and the stay-at-home. McDonald's lyric variety and control (from sharp rhyming couplets to seventeenth-century heroic stanzas, from sonnets and unrhymed forms to Spenserian stanzas) make for memorable, sometimes haunted and unsettling, poetry. Pastorals is Peter McDonald's first book for eight years, and confirms him as being among Ireland's most accomplished lyric poets.
- About The Author
- Peter McDonald was born in Belfast in 1962. His first book of poetry, Biting the Wax, was published in 1989, and since then seven volumes of his verse have appeared, including his Collected Poems (2012). He has written four books of literary criticism, including Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (1997) and Sound Intentions: The Workings of Rhyme in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (2012), and has edited Louis MacNeice's Collected Poems (2007) and most recently three volumes of the Longman Poems of W.B. Yeats. He is Emeritus Professor of British and Irish Poetry in Oxford University, and an Emeritus Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Author photo: Michal Mecner
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781857547528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (01 September 2004)
- Number of Pages
- 68
- Weight
- 109 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 220 x 135 x 6 mm
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