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    Ireland Again & Other New Poetry
    Ireland Again & Other New Poetry
    Ireland Again & Other New Poetry
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    Ireland Again & Other New Poetry

    By Patrick James

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    This collection by Irish poet Patrick James features a variety of themes, with an inescapable backdrop of Irishness be it emigration or religion (both Christian and Pagan): the list goes on! The subject-matter broaches on such universal (but diverse) concerns as love, hate, loneliness, joy, but veers into such contemporary / universal issues as the environment, pollution, cancer, as well as asking the question what does the future hold for us all? Other matters discussed include world mythologies and topics that affect each one of us aging and death, but are equally balanced with (re)birth and new life being celebrated.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateSep 16, 2010
    ISBN9781453506325
    Ireland Again & Other New Poetry
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    Patrick James

    James Patrick followed up an honours degree from the University of Cambridge with an MA in Mysticism and Religious Experience from the University of Kent in Canterbury. His unlikely training for poetry was as a writer for BBC Radio 4 light events department and various television production companies. When he is not writing poems, he is taking historical and cultural tours around the UK and Western Europe. He is also a composer-conductor and lives in Hove.

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      Book preview

      Ireland Again & Other New Poetry - Patrick James

      Copyright © 2010 by Patrick James.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2010908207

      ISBN:   Hardcover   978-1-4535-1426-9

      ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4535-1425-2

      ISBN:   Ebook   978-1-4535-0632-5

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

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      CONTENTS

      Ireland Again

      Reflections At W.B.’S Grave

      Regardless Of Shipbuilding

      Your Emigrant Son

      Smoking Causes Cancers . . .

      That Voice Again . . . .

      The Midsummer’s Visitant

      An Seol Briste

      Car Parking

      Off The Coast of Cork

      Markings of a Past

      Four Times of Her . . . .

      Handmades in Red

      The Empty Timberness . . . .

      Gravitation

      The Aching of Light . . . .

      The Old Players

      Ma mere, the Alligator

      Overlooking the Ocean

      Season of Snow

      In A Trice

      The Green Goddess

      Dolmen

      Grafton-St.-fluidic

      The Look of Division

      Moon Imagenesis

      The Course

      Cocooned

      Prophecy of Celtic Ancient’s Revisited

      The Return to Lir

      Indelible

      Creeps

      Dún Laoghaire

      Bisection

      Invocation

      No Archangelic Supper

      Poem, Paint, The Creation

      Earthwomb

      Bedroom Hearts

      Ymir

      Love Poem

      Blush

      Mid-morning Smog

      Ascension

      Her Beautiful Reward

      The Pirate Lascar

      Lilies or Reeds

      Children

      In the Shadows

      Homecoming

      Metallurgic

      Hate From Heat

      A Summer’s Rose

      My Autumn Down-pour

      Our mourning in Spring

      Primate

      Tomorrow’s child . . .

      Lover’s Leap

      Conceived at Newgrange

      Charcoal

      Excavation

      Anchor

      Beautiful Rebuilding

      The Vision Chimes

      Email to Heaven

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      When the sun’s radiance

      scorches the Earth’s ground,

      Nature sends her rains

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