Richard Murphy Poems 1952-2012Richard Murphy, now in his eighties, is one of Irelands most distinguished poets, known particularly for poems drawing on the people and history of the west of Ireland with classical rigour and unvarnished clarity. He emerged in the 1950s with John Montague and Thomas Kinsella as one of the three major poets in the new Irish poetic renaissance. Poems 19522012 expands the scope of his much acclaimed Collected Poems of 2000 to include a selection of new

she and Matt enter a world they will remember for the rest of their lives

dismayed at Ireland’s imminent disintegration during the Great Famine

grieves the death of his much-loved father

and through a process of calling-to-witness makes manifest ways of being in the world

and his scholarship has the respect of the most rigorous practitioners

This is her first book

Johnston was of Ulster Presbyterian stock

The Irish Art of Controversy suggests new ways of thinking about modern Ireland and about controversy’s bluff

know that theirs is a hopeless cause

The Thing About December by Donal Ryan Mother always said January is a lovely month

analytic work

memoranda and orders detailing this period of chaos and confusion