Dark Age

by Harpur, James

• ISBN13: 9780856464041
• ISBN10: 085646404X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry

Summary

James Harpur's poetry explores faith and vision in searching and unsentimental terms. His powerful collection, inspired by a vivid historical imagination, focuses on the Dark Ages of Europe and the struggles of early Christianity, especially in the title sequence, which concentrates on early Irish saints.

Author Biography

James Harpur has published four previous books of poetry and a translation of Boethius’s poems entitled Fortune’s Prisoner. He is poetry editor of the Temenos Academy Review and has won a number of prizes and awards, including the 2009 Michael Hartnett Award and the 1995 British National Poetry Competition.

Table of Contents

On Reaching Buddhahood
Roscommon Rain	p. 11
Stroke	p. 12
O'Donovan, O'Donovan, O'Reilly and Me	p. 15
Alien	p. 17
On Reaching Buddhahood	p. 19
The Dark Age
Brendan	p. 23
Patrick's Return	p. 24
Canair in the Afterlife	p. 25
Ciaran at Clonmacnoise	p. 26
Columbanus's Journey	p. 27
Columba's Exile	p. 28
Gobnait's End	p. 29
Kevin and the Blackbird	p. 30
Kieran of Saighir	p. 31
St. Carthage in the Monastic Graveyard	p. 32
Enda and the Bride of Christ	p. 33
Fursey's Vision	p. 34
Fintan of Clonenagh	p. 35
The Monastic Star-Timetable
James	p. 39
St. Symeon Stylites	p. 42
In Prison	p. 50
Nero	p. 60
The View from Heaven	p. 61
Scribe B	p. 63
Verbum	p. 65
The Monastic Star-Timetable	p. 67
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