Collected Poems: Padraic Fallon

by Fallon, Padraic; Fallon, Brian; Boland, Eavan

• ISBN13: 9781857546422
• ISBN10: 1857546423
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

The enormous talent of celebrated Irish Padraic Fallon is demonstrated in this volume, which includes early poems (1930–1945), poems of maturity (1946–1959), late poems (1960–1974), and poems from plays, translations, and versions of Homeric Hymns and Ballads. This replaces 0856358177.

Author Biography

Padraic Fallon was a poet, radio dramatist, storywriter, and essayist. He refused to collect and publish his poems until shortly before his death, when he prepared Poems and Poems and Versions.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Writing on the Wall	1	(1)
Yeats's Tower at Ballylee	2	(4)
Maris Stella	6	(2)
Poem for my Mother	8	(7)
Pot Shot	15	(1)
Vowels	15	(1)
Dialogue Between Raftery and Death	16	(7)
Maud Gonne	23	(3)
Book of Job	26	(1)
A Flask of Brandy	27	(1)
The Head	28	(4)
Coastal Waters
Holy Well	32	(1)
The Dwelling	32	(1)
Day Ashore	33	(1)
Tradesmen's Entrance
Love	34	(1)
Peasantry	35	(1)
The Poems of Love	35	(1)
Meeting	36	(1)
Field Observation	37	(1)
Johnstown Castle	38	(3)
A Look in the Mirror	41	(1)
March Twenty-six	42	(1)
River Lane	43	(3)
The River Walk	46	(1)
A Public Appointment	47	(2)
An Island	49	(1)
Weir Bridge	49	(1)
Gowran Park, Autumn Meeting	50	(1)
The Young Fenians	51	(1)
Capricornian	51	(2)
A Visit West	53	(2)
Boyne Valley	55	(3)
Kiltartan Legend	58	(1)
Years at Athenry Perhaps	59	(3)
Stop on the Road to Ballylee	62	(2)
On the Tower Stairs	64	(2)
The Small Town of John Coan	66	(3)
The Christmas Vigil	69	(2)
Coat of Arms	71	(2)
Magna Mater	73	(1)
For Paddy Mac	74	(3)
Lost Man	77	(1)
Special for Nancy's Mother	78	(2)
Brigid her Eve	80	(1)
Lost Man in Me	81	(2)
Lakshmi	83	(2)
Three Houses
Gutteen	85	(2)
Shanballard	87	(2)
Knockroe	89	(1)
Sunday Morning	90	(1)
Trevaylor	91	(1)
Painting of My Father	92	(3)
Curragh, November Meeting	95	(1)
Athenry	96	(3)
The Small Town of John Coan (2)
Remand	99	(1)
Maud Gonne	99	(1)
Genius Loci	100	(1)
Encounter	100	(1)
Heureux Qui Comme Ulysse	101	(1)
'She'd thumbed her way from the source'	101	(1)
'Sometimes I'd like to write: "Dear Helen,'	102	(1)
'Comment: when the bare'	102	(1)
'He'll come back, stand exactly here -'	103	(1)
'Clubbed by the evening bell'	103	(1)
'He puts back on his severed head'	104	(1)
'Delicate'	104	(1)
'Summer and a liquid bird'	105	(1)
A Certain Person	105	(1)
Body	106	(1)
A Bit of Brass	107	(1)
Duddy's Wall	108	(2)
The Skellig Way	110	(1)
Three Poems	110	(3)
Yesterday's Man	113	(2)
Name Plate	115	(1)
Argo Left	116	(1)
Dardanelles 1916	117	(1)
One Easter Morning	117	(1)
Encounter at Penshurst	118	(1)
Homeric Hymns
The Stealing of Apollo's Cattle	119	(4)
Rape of Persephone	123	(1)
To Pan	124	(1)
After Pindar
The Hyperboreans	125	(1)
The Infant Heracles	126	(1)
After Theocritus
With the Gift of a Distaff	127	(1)
After Callimachus
Erysichton	128	(2)
After Horace
Solvitur Acris Hiems	130	(1)
After the Archpoet
Confessio	131	(4)
After Gérard de Nerval
Vers Dorés	135	(1)
After Baudelaire
The Cat	135	(1)
Parfum Exotique	136	(1)
A Bird for Nancy	136	(1)
Two Mallarmé Things for Sue	137	(1)
After Rimbaud
Ma Bohême	138	(1)
O Saisons, O Châteaux	139	(1)
After the Medieval Irish
Columcille the Scribe	140	(1)
Biographical Note	141	(3)
Notes on the Poems	144