A snail in my prime : new and selected poems /

A snail in my prime : new and selected poems / Paul Durcan.

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Main Author: Durcan, Paul, 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 1995.
Subjects:
Irish poetry.
Irish poetry > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The White Window (starting p. 1)
  • Nessa (starting p. 2)
  • November 1967 (starting p. 3)
  • The Girl with the Keys to Pearse's Cottage (starting p. 4)
  • O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor (starting p. 5)
  • They Say the Butterfly Is the Hardest Stroke (starting p. 7)
  • Combe Florey (starting p. 8)
  • La Terre des Hommes (starting p. 9)
  • Aughawall Graveyard (starting p. 9)
  • Ireland 1972 (starting p. 9)
  • The Night They Murdered Boyle Somerville (starting p. 10)
  • The Kilfenora Teaboy (starting p. 12)
  • She Mends an Ancient Wireless (starting p. 14)
  • Teresa's Bar (starting p. 15)
  • The Hat Factory (starting p. 18)
  • Wife Who Smashed Television Gets Jail (starting p. 22)
  • Lord Mayo (starting p. 23)
  • The Baker (starting p. 24)
  • Polycarp (starting p. 25)
  • What Is a Protestant, Daddy? (starting p. 27)
  • Protestant Old Folks' Tour of the Ring of Kerry (starting p. 29)
  • In Memory of Those Murdered in the Dublin Massacre, May 1974 (starting p. 30)
  • Before the Celtic Yoke (starting p. 31)
  • Parents (starting p. 33)
  • Going Home to Mayo, Winter, 1949 (starting p. 34)
  • Backside to the Wind (starting p. 36)
  • Fat Molly (starting p. 38)
  • Ireland 1977 (starting p. 40)
  • Making Love outside Aras an Uachtarain (starting p. 41)
  • Sister Agnes Writes to Her Beloved Mother (starting p. 42)
  • Irish Hierarchy Bans Colour Photography (starting p. 43)
  • In Memory: The Miami Showband
  • Massacred 31 July 1975 (starting p. 45)
  • Memoirs of a Fallen Blackbird (starting p. 46)
  • Micheal Mac Liammoir (starting p. 47)
  • Lament for Cearbhall O'Dalaigh (starting p. 49)
  • That Propellor I Left in Bilbao (starting p. 52)
  • The Drimoleague Blues (starting p. 54)
  • Sally (starting p. 55)
  • The Daughter Finds Her Father Dead (starting p. 56)
  • Charlie's Mother (starting p. 58)
  • En Famille (starting p. 60)
  • Madman (starting p. 60)
  • This Week the Court Is Sleeping in Loughrea (starting p. 61)
  • Tullynoe: Tete a Tete in the Parish Priest's Parlour (starting p. 63)
  • Hopping Round Knock Shrine in the Falling Rain, 1958 (starting p. 64)
  • For My Lord Tennyson I Shall Lay Down My Life (starting p. 66)
  • The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious (starting p. 67)
  • The Crucifixion Circus, Good Friday, Paris, 1981 (starting p. 68)
  • The Rose of Blackpool (starting p. 73)
  • The Woman Who Keeps Her Breasts in the Back Garden (starting p. 76)
  • Death in a Graveyard: Pere Lachaise (starting p. 77)
  • The Golden Girl (starting p. 78)
  • The Children of Hiroshima, Dublin 7 (starting p. 80)
  • World Cup '82 (starting p. 83)
  • The Lion Tamer (starting p. 85)
  • Going Home to Meet Sylvia (starting p. 86)
  • The Haulier's Wife Meets Jesus on the Road near Moone (starting p. 87)
  • Bewley's Oriental Cafe, Westmoreland Street (starting p. 93)
  • Man Smoking a Cigarette in the Barcelona Metro (starting p. 95)
  • The Cabinet Table (starting p. 97)
  • 10.30 a.m. Mass, 16 June 1985 (starting p. 98)
  • Hymn to a Broken Marriage (starting p. 101)
  • The Jewish Bride (starting p. 102)
  • Around the Corner from Francis Bacon (starting p. 104)
  • Raymond of the Rooftops (starting p. 107)
  • The Turkish Carpet (starting p. 109)
  • The Pieta's Over (starting p. 110)
  • Six Nuns Die in Convent Inferno (starting p. 112)
  • The Rape of Europa (starting p. 118)
  • The Hay-Carrier (starting p. 120)
  • Divorce Referendum, Ireland, 1986 (starting p. 121)
  • What Shall I Wear, Darling, to The Great Hunger? (starting p. 123)
  • El Flight 106: New York
  • Dublin (starting p. 125)
  • A Vision of Africa on the Coast of Kerry (starting p. 127)
  • Martha's Wall (starting p. 128)
  • Doris Fashions (starting p. 129)
  • The Beckett at the Gate (starting p. 131)
  • The Woman with the Keys to Stalin's House (starting p. 139)
  • Trauma Junction (starting p. 141)
  • Estonian Farewell, 1983 (starting p. 141)
  • Peredelkino: at the Grave of Pasternak (starting p. 142)
  • Diarrhoea Attack at Party Headquarters in Leningrad (starting p. 146)
  • Tbilisi Cabaret (Ortachala Belle with a Fan) (starting p. 147)
  • Hymn to My Father (starting p. 149)
  • The Red Arrow (starting p. 150)
  • Going Home to Russia (starting p. 152)
  • Putney Garage (starting p. 157)
  • Hommage a Cezanne (starting p. 160)
  • The Barrie Cooke Show, May 1988 (starting p. 162)
  • Loosestrife in Ballyferriter (starting p. 164)
  • Self-Portrait, Nude with Steering Wheel (starting p. 167)
  • The Centre of the Universe (starting p. 169)
  • Paul (starting p. 172)
  • Phyllis Goldberg (starting p. 174)
  • Felicity in Turin (starting p. 177)
  • The Dream of Life (starting p. 178)
  • Ulysses (starting p. 179)
  • Study of a Figure in a Landscape, 1952 (starting p. 183)
  • The One-Armed Crucifixion (starting p. 185)
  • Fjord (starting p. 186)
  • Crinkle, near Birr (starting p. 187)
  • Life-Saving (starting p. 190)
  • Sport (starting p. 192)
  • The Mayo Accent (starting p. 195)
  • Poem Not Beginning with a Line by Pindar (starting p. 196)
  • Geronimo (starting p. 198)
  • "The Dream in the Peasant's Bent Shoulders" (starting p. 203)
  • Glocca Morra (starting p. 205)
  • The Repentant Peter (starting p. 208)
  • Our Father (starting p. 210)
  • Man Walking the Stairs (starting p. 215)
  • The Virgin and Child (starting p. 221)
  • The Riding School (starting p. 223)
  • The Knucklebone Player (starting p. 225)
  • Flower Girl, Dublin (starting p. 228)
  • Grief (starting p. 230)
  • Woman of the Mountain (starting p. 233)
  • The Dublin
  • Paris
  • Berlin
  • Moscow Line (starting p. 237)
  • Faith Healer (starting p. 240)
  • A Spin in the Rain with Seamus Heaney (starting p. 243)
  • The Toll Bridge (starting p. 246)
  • The Only Man Never to Meet Samuel Beckett (starting p. 251)
  • The Soldier (starting p. 253)
  • My Beloved Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout (starting p. 254)
  • Woman Footballer of the Year (starting p. 256)
  • My Daughter Siabhra in Moscow, 19 August 1991 (starting p. 258)
  • Father's Day, 21 June 1992 (starting p. 260)
  • A Cold Wind Blew in from Lake Geneva (starting p. 262)
  • A Snail in My Prime (starting p. 265)
  • Glossary (starting p. 271)

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