John Hewitt Selected Poems

by Longley, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780856408021
• ISBN10: 0856408026
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Blackstaff Pr Ltd

Summary

A testament To The poet's remarkable literary legacy, and a celebration of a unique, compelling voice in Irish poetry.

Table of Contents

from Conacre	p. 1
Once alien here	p. 8
First corncrake	p. 9
East Antrim winter	p. 10
The swathe uncut	p. 11
Lyric ('let but a thrush begin ...')	p. 12
Lyric ('chestnut and beech ...')	p. 13
Leaf	p. 14
Load	p. 15
Frost	p. 16
Ghosts	p. 17
Mykonos	p. 19
Mycenae and Epidaurus	p. 20
Turf-carrier on Aranmore	p. 21
Because I paced my thought	p. 23
The green shoot	p. 24
First snow in the glens	p. 26
Colour	p. 27
Landscape	p. 28
The Ram's horn	p. 29
O country people	p. 30
Man fish and bird	p. 32
The colony	p. 36
The stoat	p. 41
The watchers	p. 42
Hedgehog	p. 43
Rite, lubicavish, glenaan	p. 44
The owl	p. 45
The municipal gallery revisited, October 1954	p. 47
Ossian's Grave, Lubicavish, County Antrim	p. 49
The frontier	p. 51
Jacob and the angel	p. 52
An Irishman in coventry	p. 53
Whit Monday	p. 55
My grandmother's garter	p. 56
April awake	p. 58
Footing turf	p. 59
Sunset over Glenaan	p. 60
May altar	p. 62
The ballad	p. 63
The wake	p. 64
The bell	p. 65
The hill-farm	p. 66
Gloss, on the difficulties of translation	p. 67
An Ulsterman	p. 68
The dilemma	p. 69
Street names	p. 70
The coasters	p. 71
Black and white	p. 74
The storm	p. 75
From the Chinese of Wang Li Shi	p. 76
Chinese fluteplayer	p. 77
Emily Dickinson	p. 78
Scissors for a one-armed tailor	p. 79
Grey and white	p. 80
Skypiece	p. 81
I write for ...	p. 82
The search	p. 83
From the Tibetan	p. 85
Et Tu in Arcadia Vixisti	p. 87
The scar	p. 88
Mary Hagan, Islandmagec, 1919	p. 89
The king's horses	p. 90
Cultra manor : the Ulster folk museum	p. 91
Neither an elegy nor a manifesto	p. 92
A birthday rhyme for Roberta	p. 95
Substance and shadow	p. 96
Encounter nineteen twenty	p. 97
A mobile mollusc	p. 98
A local poet	p. 99
For a moment of darkness over the nations	p. 100
The romantic	p. 101
The glens of antrim	p. 102
The blossomed thorn	p. 103
A father's death	p. 104
from Sonnets for Roberta (1954)	p. 105
A happy boy	p. 106
Balloons and wooden guns	p. 107
The volunteer	p. 108
The magician	p. 109
Orchard country	p. 110
The doctor's bag	p. 111
A holy place	p. 112
My sister	p. 113
The Irish dimension	p. 114
Carnations	p. 115
I lie alone	p. 116
The glens	p. 117
The man from Malabar	p. 118
The covenanter's grave	p. 119
A house demolished	p. 120
The Christmas rhymers, Ballynure, 1941	p. 121
For Roberta in the garden	p. 122
The hedgehog : for R	p. 123
To the people of Dresden	p. 124
from Freehold	p. 125
Ulster names	p. 135
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