{"title":"Books by Patrick Kavanagh","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780141183619","title":"Tarry Flynn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHe did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA semi-autobiographical novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Green Fool\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. 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The first comprehensive selection of Kavanagh's poetry to be published, this volume offers a timely reassessment of a poet unfairly neglected outside Ireland.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399223935154,"sku":"9780141183480","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141183480_1154a642-5b07-47b3-a716-b87ad40145e0.jpg?v=1786011279"},{"product_id":"9780141184203","title":"The Green Fool","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTime 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 insatiable love of gossip. There are tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying and night-time salmon-poaching; of country-weddings and fairs, of political banditry and religious pilgrimages; and of farm-work in the fields and kicking mares.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKavanagh's experiences inspired him to write poetry which immortalized a fast-disappearing way of life and brought him recognition as one of Ireland's great poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224622707061,"sku":"9780141184203","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141184203_d32d930e-eba0-4250-a19e-ac79b8d41b10.jpg?v=1786011313"},{"product_id":"9780141186931","title":"Modern Classics Collected Poems","description":"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 for a fully independent country, both politically and culturally. Moving beyond Irish verse's preoccupation with history, national politics and identity, he turned to the land and scenery of his native Inniskeen, portraying the closely-observed minutiae of everyday rural and urban life in an uninhibited, groundbreaking style. Lucid, various, direct and engaging, Kavanagh's poems have a unique place in the canon and a unique accessibility. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis major new edition is the culmination of many years of work by Antoinette Quinn in creating authoritative texts for Kavanagh's poetry - from his early works such as 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his masterpiece, the epic 'The Great Hunger', allowing us to see the development of Kavanagh's genius as never before.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224725467509,"sku":"9780141186931","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141186931_e4e56030-7761-434f-8bc2-de71b06185c9.jpg?v=1786011458"},{"product_id":"9780241339343","title":"The Great Hunger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I have lived in important places, times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen great events were decided . . .'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. 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