Denman, Peter (2001) Poet and Mastercraftsman. UNSPECIFIED.

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When Michael Hartnett died just over two years ago there was a widely felt sorrow and sense of loss among those who knew him or his poetry. As well as being a poet, Michael had been a character, lovable and irascible, who seemed destined to enter into the anecdotage that exists around the fringe of Irish literature. This book of his Collected Poems is welcome as a neccessary corrective to that. Gallery Books has recently enchanced its canon-making tendancy by publishing handsome "collecteds" of our senior contemporary poets: Derek Mahon, John Montague, Richard Murphy. The Hartnett volume appears posthumously, but such was not the intention when the book was planned by Hartnett himself and his editor and publisher Peter fallon. It was published at the time envisaged, which would have been Hartnett's sixtieth birthday. Circumstances have meant that this volume takes on a more definitive cast than it otherwise would have, and it is good to have such a span of Hartnett's poems, covering forty years, between a single set of covers.

Item Type:	Other
Additional Information:	Poetry Ireland Review: Winter 2001 Vol.71 pages 11-13
Keywords:	Mastercraftsman; Collected poems; Poetry Ireland;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies
Item ID:	863
Depositing User:	Peter Denman
Date Deposited:	11 Jan 2008
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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