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Title Peter Fallon : poet, publisher, editor and translator / editor Richard Rankin Russell
Published Kildare : Irish Academic Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents Cover; Front Matter; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Fallon and the Gallery Press; The Dublin Arts Festival, 1970: Capella, The Book of Invasions, and the Original Gallery Books; Gallery at the Abbey: An Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Reading; Peter Fallon Revisited; Works and Days; PART II: The Contours of Fallon's Creative Work; Peter Fallon's Profane Rituals; Double Vision: Peter Fallon's Landscapes with Figures; 'This Blooming Place': Peter Fallon's Tarry Flynn; Fellow Feeling: or Mourning, Metonymy, Masculinity
PART III: Fallon and the Natural WorldAll That Lasts: Peter Fallon's Loughcrew; Nature's News: The Place(s) of Peter Fallon's Poetry; The Obscenitites and Audiences of Peter Fallon; Peter Fallon's Georics: Praises, Lessons and Lamentations in Virgil's 'studies of the arts of peace'; PART IV: Fallon and America; Notes on Peter Fallon's The Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart; The News of Poetry, or, What Love Does Life Require?; Foreword to Airs and Angels by Peter Fallon; PART V: Poems in Honour of Peter Fallon; On Cutting One's Finger Whilst Reaching for Jasmine ; The Dark Room
Colmcille on ExileRevision; An Chaor Aduaidh/ The Northern Lights; The Dapple-Grey Mare; The Given Light; Before What Will Come After; Shed; Minute; Out and About; Leaving; The Blue Pencil; A Bee-HIve; Ancestral Roads; Monet's Palette, Musee Marmottan; Blackberries; Index
Summary In this unique and beautifully produced collection, a stellar line-up of Irish writers pay tribute to the immense contributions made to the literary arts in Ireland and abroad by Irish poet and publisher Peter Fallon. Fallon has run Gallery Press since 1970, publishing hundreds of titles in Irish poetry, drama, and fiction, and, with Timothy Engelland, established Deerfield Press in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Fallon has written many volumes of his own poetry and, with Derek Mahon, he co-edited the influential 1990 collection The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry. Additionally, Fallon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2013)
Subject Irish poetry.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Irish poetry
SUBJECT Ireland -- Poetry
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
Author Russell, Richard Rankin
ISBN 9780716532255
0716532255