Time hardly mattered in the village of Mucker, the birthplace of poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh. Full of wry humour, Kavanagh's unsentimental and evocative account of his Irish rural upbringing describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiabl[...]
The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate [...]
His is a unique voice in modern lyrical poetry ferociously independent, by turns ironic, colloquial, lyrical.[...]
Den irländske nationalförfattaren Patrick Kavanaghs mästerverk Den stora hungern, för första gången på svenska, i översättning och med efterord av Erik Andersson. Blicken har fokus på människan själv i hennes ohöljda armod, det är naket och nära, med såväl ömma som grymma detaljer.[...]