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COLLECTED POEMS was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904. His verse PATRICK KAVANAGH collections included Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale (1947) and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling and Other Poems (1960). He also wrote the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and an autobiography, The Green Fool (1938). He died in 1967. is the author of Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography (2001) and ANTOINETTE QUINN editor of Patrick Kavanagh: A Poet’s Country, Selected Prose (2003) and of his Selected Poems (1996). PATRICK KAVANAGH Collected Poems Edited by ANTOINETTE QUINN PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England www.penguin.com This collection first published by Allen Lane 2004 Published in Penguin Classics 2005 1 Copyright 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 by Patrick Kavanagh Copyright © Patrick Kavanagh, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 Copyright © Katherine B. Kavanagh, 1972, 1978 Copyright © The Trustees of the Estate of the late Katherine B. Kavanagh, through the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency Introduction and Notes copyright © Antoinette Quinn, 2004 All rights reserved The moral right of the editor has been asserted Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser EISBN: 978–0–141–90679–9 Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Editorial Note The Poems 1929–38 Address to an Old Wooden Gate The Intangible Ploughman To a Blackbird Gold Watch Beech Tree To a Child My Room Four Birds To a Late Poplar After May Tinker’s Wife April Inniskeen Road: July Evening March Sanctity Monaghan Hills The Hired Boy My People Shancoduff April Dusk Poplar Memory Poet Pursuit of an Ideal In the Same Mood The Irony of It Plough-horses Snail The Weary Horse Pygmalion 1939–46 Anna Quinn Primrose Memory of My Father Christmas, 1939 Christmas Eve Remembered To the Man After the Harrow Spraying the Potatoes Pilgrims Stony Grey Soil A Christmas Childhood Art McCooey The Long Garden Why Sorrow? The Great Hunger Lough Derg Advent Beyond the Headlines Consider the Grass Growing Threshing Morning October 1943 Peace A Wreath for Tom Moore’s Statue Pegasus Memory of Brother Michael Bluebells for Love Temptation in Harvest Father Mat In Memory of My Mother On Raglan Road 1947–55 Jim Larkin The Wake of the Books Jungle No Social Conscience The Paddiad Spring Day Leave Them Alone Adventure in the Bohemian Jungle Ante-natal Dream Bank Holiday Irish Poets Open Your Eyes Tale of Two Cities To Be Dead Kerr’s Ass The Defeated Who Killed James Joyce? Portrait of the Artist
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