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Photo © Niall Hartnett
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Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. Abandoning a Science Scholarship at UCD he entered the Civil Service in 1946 where he was assistant Principal Officer in the Dept of Finance. He has taught in the United States and established and administered the Irish Tradition study programme in Dublin, retiring in 1992. He was a director of the Dolmen Press and Cuala Press, Dublin, and in 1972 established the Peppercanister Press whose occasional publications now appear under the Dedalus imprint. His Collected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2001. Kinsella has produced outstanding translations of The Táin and Poems of the Dispossessed, among other titles, and in 1986 edited the New Oxford Book of Irish Verse. In June 2007, together with artist Louis Le Brocquy he was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin.
"Irish poets of a certain age, tormented by the unrepeatable example of the later Yeats, are jockeying a little too obviously for the mantle of prophet, trying too hard for the world-historical note. Thomas Kinsella, by dint of a dry, compassionate irony, perfected over half a lifetime, seems to have slipped quietly past that myth to a late excellence all his own, containing, every so often, the only thing that matters, the moment of moral knowledge."
—Harry Clifton, The Irish Times
“Kinsella is one of the finest poets of the last century, in Ireland or out of it”—Justin Quinn, Poetry Review
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KINSELLA, Thomas
Love Joy Peace (Peppercanister 29)
November 2011
20 pp, 210 x148mm
ISBN 978 1 906614 50 8
Price:
€7.50
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KINSELLA, Thomas
Fat Master (Peppercanister 28)
November 2011
20 pp, 210 x148mm
ISBN 978 1 906614 49 2
Price:
€7.50
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KINSELLA, Thomas
Belief and Unbelief (Peppercanister 27)
June 2007
24 pp
ISBN 978 1904556 74 9
Price: €12.00 Paperback.
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KINSELLA, Thomas
Man of War (Peppercanister 26)
June 2007
30 pp
ISBN 978 1904556 73 2
Price: €12.00 Paperback.
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KINSELLA, Thomas
Marginal Economy (Peppercanister 24)
February 2006
(Llimited edition of 500 copies)
34 pp
"Kinsella is critical of false prophets and compassionate about our human predicament. The poems are allegories of inadequacy, waste and excess, but also of survival, acceptance and enjoyment of the sunset before it disappears into "the dark embrace of night".
— Maurice Harmon, The Irish Times
ISBN 1904556 46 9
Price: €10.00 Paperback.
UNAVAILABLE
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KINSELLA, Thomas
Readings in Poetry (Peppercanister 25 )
February 2006
(Limited edition of 500 copies)
48 pp
ISBN 1904556 47 7
Price: €10.00 Paperback.
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KINSELLA, Thomas
Open Court (Peppercanister 17 )
1991
ISBN 1873790 13 9
Price: €8.00 Paperback.
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KINSELLA, Thomas
Butcher's Dozen
First published 1972, reissued 1992
(Last few of limited edition of 500 copies)
ISBN 1873790 13 9
Price: €8.00 Paperback.
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REVIEW
Review of Marginal Economy by Michael Peverett here
Thomas Kinsella reads and introduces the poem 'Marcus Aurelius' from Marginal Economy, Peppercanister No. 24, recorded in Belmullet, Co. Mayo, June 2006, following the presentation to him of the Ted McNulty Award
here
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