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Ireland's Other Poetry: From Anonymous to Zozimus
by John Wyse Jackson & Hector McDonnell
With over 300 lively illustrations by Hector McDonnell, this wonderful tour d'horizon will become an essential reference work and companion for those interested in Irish writing, culture, or social life down the years, or for anyone who seeks the words of a favourite comic verse. A major new anthology of entertaining and unusual poems, rhymes and songs, this publication revisits a forgotten Irish poetic landscape, bringing the reader on an exhilarating alphabetical tour through a country freighted with unexpected curiosities, from Dunluce to Belfast, Dublin, Cork and the Skelligs.
Many anonymous or neglected poets, humorists and lyricists will be encountered, as will more celebrated writers, often in skittish mood. They range from Jonathan Swift to Shane MacGowan, by way of Flann O'Brien, Goldsmith, George Bernard Shaw and Christy Moore - as well as the occasional exotic visitor like Betjeman or Chesterton - to Michael Hartnett and Brendan Behan, Percy French and Oliver St John Gogarty, Ewart Milne and Derek Mahon, Tommy Makem and James Clarence Mangan: a gathering of the familiar and unfamiliar, on the wing.
THE EDITORS will continue collecting examples of Ireland's Other Poetry, old and new. If you know of any verses that deserve a place in this book - even if you have written some yourself - they would be delighted to hear from you by email at irelandsotherpoetry@hotmail.com.
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