Selected Poems/Rogha Dánta 1968-1984

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The Translators Philip Casey Jason Sommer Gábriel Rosenstock Paul Muldoon Michael O'Loughlin Michael Hartnett Dermot Bolger Gábriel Fitzmaurice "But for Michael Davitt I believe that the corpus of contemporary poetry in Irish would be a great deal less exciting than it is. The danger was, before he came on the scene, that Irish-language poets would quite soon end up in a blind alley, isolated, engaged in a type of elegant abstract writing such as practised by many Latin authors in the middle ages. Davitt led the young poets in another direction: he was their pied piper. . . . He stimulated them, awakened in them a sense of absurdity, he brought them from pub to pub, gave them Innti as a fórum, and led them back to the peripheries of everyday . . the pungency and sass of his style and wordhoard demonstrate that the formative energy of his language and of ours is not yet snuffed." Michael Davitt was born in Cork City in 1950. While a student in University College Cork in 1970, he... Tovább

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The Translators Philip Casey Jason Sommer Gábriel Rosenstock Paul Muldoon Michael O'Loughlin Michael Hartnett Dermot Bolger Gábriel Fitzmaurice "But for Michael Davitt I believe that the corpus of contemporary poetry in Irish would be a great deal less exciting than it is. The danger was, before he came on the scene, that Irish-language poets would quite soon end up in a blind alley, isolated, engaged in a type of elegant abstract writing such as practised by many Latin authors in the middle ages. Davitt led the young poets in another direction: he was their pied piper. . . . He stimulated them, awakened in them a sense of absurdity, he brought them from pub to pub, gave them Innti as a fórum, and led them back to the peripheries of everyday . . the pungency and sass of his style and wordhoard demonstrate that the formative energy of his language and of ours is not yet snuffed." Michael Davitt was born in Cork City in 1950. While a student in University College Cork in 1970, he founded the poetry journal, Innti, which has been the major fórum and stimulus for the remarkable recent flowering of Irish language poetry. He has published two collections of poetry, Gleann ar Ghleann (Valley by Valleyj in 1982 and Bligeard Sráide (Street Bfagfctrd) in 1983. His own work blends the traditional richness of West Munster Irish with a fresh innovative use of language which allows his poems to address fully the realities of present day life, turning them in effect into a poetry of liberation for the Irish language itself and helping to give it its rightfiil place as a modern and vibrant médium. This first ever dual language edition of his work contains a selection from both his books plus many previously uncollected poems, and will serve to reveal the full extent of his achievement to an English language readership for the first time. life." - Prof. Seán Ó Tuama (Colm Cille Lecture) Alan Titley (The Bright Wave) Vissza