Patrick Crotty
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Poetry in Ireland is a genuinely ancient cultural practice, how ancient is hard to determine, although there is evidence to the existence of writing predating the arrival of Christianity early in the fifth century. This is the starting point of the book as over its one thousand or so pages it charts Ireland’s literary culture through Christian and pre-Christian attitudes, to Gaels and Vikings, Nationalism and Unionism, Catholicism and Protestantism, the Irish and English languages, also managing to encompass Latin, Old Norse and Old French right up to the vibrant poetry of modern Ireland, celebrating around 1,500 years of this nations poetry and verse.
What makes this book really magnificent is that many of the verse translations were specially commissioned, with 250 new English translations by the greatest poets currently working, including Seamus Heaney (also wrote the preface), Michael Longley, Bernard O ’Donoghue and Ciarán Carson. Not counting Anonymous, this collection features over one hundred and eighty poets, and although you could quite easily play spot the missing poet, I think that is missing the point; yes there are several poets working today I would love to see in this collection, but then who do you leave out, my choice may not be yours and with this Anthology already at over a thousand pages, how much larger would it need to be to embrace all our favourites.
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry, ably demonstrates Ireland’s status as a literary superpower, whether through those poems/verses that have only survived due to some monks recording of them or whether it is the poetry that still flows like molten lava from those poets writing today. This anthology offers a wonderful insight into a nation that somehow has managed to not only write as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, said of poetry “The best words in the best order”, but have in the process influenced the rest of the world.… (mehr)