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Tables of Contents for The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xvi
Thomas Kinsella
A Lady of Quality
1
3
In the Ringwood
4
2
Downstream
6
3
Wormwood
9
1
from Nightwalker
10
3
Hen Woman
13
3
Ancestor
16
1
Nuchal
17
2
Endymion
19
1
All is Emptiness, and I Must Spin
20
2
The Route of the Tain
22
2
Death Bed
24
2
Finistere
26
4
The Oldest Place
30
3
Tao and Unfitness at Inistiogue on the River Nore
33
4
John Montague
The Trout
37
1
Like Dolmens Round My Childhood, the Old People
38
2
Woodtown Manor
40
1
All Legendary Obstacles
41
1
King & Queen
42
1
Last Journey
43
1
A Lost Tradition
44
2
A Grafted Tongue
46
2
The Wild Dog Rose
48
4
At Last
52
1
Herbert Street Revisited
53
2
A Flowering Absence
55
3
The Locket
58
2
Deer Park
60
2
Richard Murphy
Sailing to an Island
62
3
The Last Galway Hooker
65
4
from The Battle of Aughrim Casement's Funeral
69
5
Slate
69
1
Rapparees
70
1
Luttrell's Death
71
1
Patrick Sarsfield's Portrait
72
2
Seals at High Island
74
2
The Reading Lesson
76
1
Gate Lodge
77
1
Pearse Hutchinson
Malaga
78
1
Be Born a Saint
79
2
Look, No Hands
81
1
Fleadh Cheoil
82
3
Gaeltacht
85
2
Bright After Dark
87
1
The Frost is All Over
88
2
Amhran na mBreag
90
1
A True Story Ending in False Hope
91
1
Anthony Cronin
Responsibilities
92
2
Lines for a Painter
94
2
Elegy for the Nightbound
96
2
from R.M.S. Titanic
98
2
Tom Mac Intyre
The Yellow Bittern
100
2
Sweet Killen Hill
102
2
James Simmons
The Archaeologist
104
1
Written, Directed by and Starring...
105
1
The End of the Affair
106
1
Stephano Remembers
107
1
A Long Way After Ronsard
108
1
West Strand Visions
109
1
Claudy
110
2
For Thomas Moore
112
1
Rogation Day: Portrush
113
1
From the Irish
114
1
Westport House, Portrush
115
2
The Pleasant Joys of Brotherhood
117
1
Desmond O'Grady
from The Dark Edge of Europe
118
1
Professor Kelleher and the Charles River
119
2
Reading the Unpublished Manuscripts of Louis MacNeice at Kinsale Harbour
121
2
from The Dying Gaul
123
1
from Hellas
124
2
from Lines in a Roman Schoolbook
126
1
Purpose
127
1
The Great Horse Fair
128
3
Brendan Kennelly
My Dark Fathers
131
2
The Limerick Train
133
2
Dream of a Black Fox
135
2
Bread
137
1
The Swimmer
138
1
The Island
139
2
Proof
141
1
Seamus Heaney
Bogland
142
2
Anahorish
144
1
The Tollund Man
145
2
Summer Home
147
2
Funeral Rites
149
3
Punishment
152
2
Exposure
154
2
A Postcard from North Antrim
156
2
Casualty
158
4
The Harvest Bow
162
1
An Ulster Twilight
163
2
from Station Island
165
3
Clearances
168
4
The Mud Vision
172
2
Michael Longley
Persephone
174
1
The Hebrides
175
4
Wounds
179
1
The West
180
1
In Memory of Gerard Dillon
181
1
Skara Brae
182
1
Ash Keys
183
1
Frozen Rain
184
1
Peace
185
3
The Linen Industry
188
1
Remembering Carrigskeewaun
189
1
Seamus Deane
Power Cut
190
1
Return
191
1
Fording the River
192
1
Osip Mandelstam
193
1
History Lessons
194
2
Reading Paradise Lost in Protestant Ulster 1984
196
2
Eamon Grennan
Facts of Life, Ballymoney
198
2
Sunday Morning Through Binoculars
200
1
Wing Road
201
1
Soul Music: The Derry Air
202
2
Men Roofing
204
2
Conjunctions
206
3
Michael Hartnett
A Small Farm
209
1
There will be a Talking
210
1
For My Grandmother, Bridget Halpin
211
1
The Person as Dreamer: We Talk about the Future
212
1
`I saw magic on a green country road'
213
1
A Visit to Castletown House
214
2
Death of an Irishwoman
216
1
Lament for Tadhg Cronin's Children
217
1
The Retreat of Ita Cagney
218
6
An Dobharchu Gonta (The Wounded Otter)
224
2
Fis Dheireanach Eoghain Rua Ui Shuilleabhain (The Last Vision of Eoghan Rua O Suilleabhain)
226
1
`Pity the man who English lacks'
227
1
Derek Mahon
In Carrowdore Churchyard
228
1
Lives
229
2
The Snow Party
231
1
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford
232
2
Ford Manor
234
1
Everything is Going to be All Right
235
1
Courtyards in Delft
236
2
The Woods
238
2
A Garage in Co. Cork
240
2
The Globe in North Carolina
242
3
Achill
245
1
Dejection
246
1
Antarctica
247
1
Michael Smith
City
248
1
Asleep in the City
249
1
Chimes
250
1
Stopping to Take Notes
251
2
A Visit to the Village
253
1
From the Chinese
254
2
Eavan Boland
From the Painting `Back from Market' Chardin
256
1
After the Irish of Egan O'Rahilly
257
1
The War Horse
258
2
Ode to Suburbia
260
2
In Her Own Image
262
1
I Remember
263
1
The Oral Tradition
264
3
Paul Durcan
La Terre des Hommes
267
1
Ireland 1972
268
1
She Mends an Ancient Wireless
269
1
The Weeping Headstones of the Isaac Becketts
270
1
The Kilfenora Teaboy
271
2
Going Home to Mayo, Winter, 1949
273
1
Backside to the Wind
274
2
Birth of a Coachman
276
1
Irish Hierarchy Bans Colour Photography
277
2
Micheal Mac Liammoir
279
2
The Pieta's Over
281
2
The Divorce Referendum, Ireland, 1986
283
2
John Ennis
Alice of Daphne, 1799
285
1
Coyne's
286
2
A Drink of Spring
288
1
The Road to Patmos
289
2
Richard Ryan
Father of Famine
291
1
Deafness
292
1
Winter in Minneapolis
293
2
The Lake of the Woods
295
2
At the End
297
1
Hugh Maxton
An Urgent Letter
298
4
Ode
302
1
Elegies
303
4
Deutschland
307
2
Frank Ormsby
Landscape with Figures
309
2
Spot the Ball
311
1
A Day in August
312
1
Under the Stairs
313
1
My Careful Life
314
1
Home
315
1
Ciaran Carson
Ceili
316
1
Dresden
317
5
Judgement
322
3
Army
325
1
Cocktails
326
1
Bloody Hand
327
1
Tom Paulin
In the Lost Province
328
1
Anastasia McLaughlin
329
2
Desertmartin
331
1
Off the Back of a Lorry
332
1
Last Statement
333
1
Presbyterian Study
334
1
Michael Davitt
An Scathan (The Mirror)
335
4
Ciorru Bothair (Shortening the Road)
339
5
Seandaoine (Old People)
344
2
An Gochumadoir (The Counterfeiter)
346
2
Medbh McGuckian
Gateposts
348
1
Lychees
349
1
The Sofa
350
1
The Aphrodisiac
351
1
The Flitting
352
2
On Not Being Your Lover
354
1
To a Cuckoo at Coolanlough
355
1
Sea or Sky?
356
1
On Ballycastle Beach
357
1
Peter Fallon
Winter Work
358
1
Spring Song
359
2
The Herd
361
1
Airs and Graces
362
2
The Meadow
364
2
Himself
366
2
Paul Muldoon
Hedgehog
368
1
Our Lady of Ardboe
369
1
Ireland
370
1
The Avenue
371
1
Something of a Departure
372
1
Why Brownlee Left
373
1
Truce
374
1
Gathering Mushrooms
375
3
Quoof
378
1
Yggdrasill
379
2
The Wishbone
381
1
The Lass of Aughrim
382
1
The Soap-Pig
383
4
Harry Clifton
Monsoon Girl
387
2
Death of Thomas Merton
389
2
The Distaff Side
391
1
Id
392
2
Euclid Avenue
394
1
Eccles Street, Bloomsday, 1982
395
2
Nuala ni Dhomhnaill
Fear Suaithinseach (Marvellous Grass)
397
3
Geasa (The Bond)
400
2
Aubade
402
2
An Crann (As for the Quince)
404
3
An Ras (The Race)
407
4
Thomas McCarthy
The Wisdom of AE
411
1
The Phenomenology of Stones
412
1
Claud Cockburn
413
2
Quatrain without Sparrows, Helpful Bells or Hope
415
1
Toast
416
1
The Emigration Trains
417
2
Aidan Carl Mathews
Minding Ruth
419
2
Letter Following
421
1
The Death of Irish
422
1
Two Months Married
423
1
Spectrum
424
2
Caedmon
426
1
Michael O'Loughlin
Cuchulainn
427
1
An Irish Requiem
428
2
from The Shards
430
2
Posthumous
432
1
Elegy for the Unknown Soldier
433
1
Glasnevin Cemetery
434
2
Peter Sirr
The Collector's Marginalia
436
2
Beginnings
438
1
Understanding Canada
439
1
A Guide to Holland
440
1
Sara Berkeley
The Parting
441
1
The Mass is Over
442
1
Biographical Notes
443
5
Acknowledgements
448
7
Index of First Lines
455