Thomas Kinsella (poet)

Thomas Kinsella (born May 4, 1928 in Inchicore ) is an Irish poet, writer, translator and publisher.

biography

Thomas Kinsella was born in Inchicore, Dublin , in 1928 . He spent most of his childhood with relatives in the countryside. He went to school in Inchicore; he attended Model School first , then O'Connell's School of the Christian Brothers .

In 1946 he began studying science at Dublin University , but later turned to the humanities .

His first writings appeared in the university magazine The National Student and in Poetry Ireland . Liam Miller's Dolmen Press published The Starlight Eye (1952) and Poems (1956). This was followed by Another September (1958), Moralities (1960), Downstream (1962), Wormwood (1966) and Night Walker (1967).

At Liam Miller's suggestion, Thomas Kinsella turned to the translation of early Irish scripts. Works from this period include Longes Mac Unsnig , The Breastplate of St Patrick (1954) and Thirty-Three Triads (1955). Kinsella's most important and important translations are likely The Táin , a version of the Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge (1969), and An Duanaire: 1600–1900, Poems of the Dispossessed (1981).

In 1970, Kinsella became an English professor at Temple University in Philadelphia . In 1972 he founded Peppercanister Press to bring out his works in his own publishing house.

In 2000, Kinsella became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . For his life's work, Kinsella received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards in 2018 .

Works

poetry

• Poems (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1956);
• Another September (Dolmen, 1958);
• Poems & Translations (New York: Atheneum, 1961);
• Downstream (Dolmen, 1962);
• The Clergyman (Dublin: St Sepulcher's Press, 1965);
• Tear (Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1969);
• Nightwalker and Other Poems (Dolmen, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1968; New York, Knopf, 1969);
• Ely Place (Dublin: Tara Telephone Publications / St Sepulcher's Press, 1972);
• Butcher's Dozen (Dublin, Peppercanister, 1972);
• The Good Fight (Pepper Canister 1973);
• Notes from the Dead and Other Poems (Knopf, 1973);
• Fifteen Dead (Dolmen, Peppercanister, 1979);
• One and Other Poems (Dolmen, Oxford University Press, 1979);
• Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 (Dolmen 1979; Winston-Salem NC, Wake Forest University Press, 1979);
• One Fond Embrace (Deerfield, MA: Deerfield Press, 1981);
• St Catherine's Clock (Oxford University Press, 1987);
• Blood & Family (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988);
• Poems From City Center (Oxford University Press, 1990);
• Madonna and Other Poems (Peppercanister, 1991);
• Open Court (Peppercanister, 1991);
• The Pen Shop (Peppercanister, 1997);
• The Familiar (Peppercanister, 1999);
• Godhead (Peppercanister, 1999);
• Citizen of the World (Peppercanister, 2000);
• Littlebody (Peppercanister, 2000);
• Collected Poems 1956-2001 (Oxford University Press, 2001);
• Marginal economy (Peppercanister, 2006);
• Collected Poems 1956-2001 (Wake Forest University Press, 2006).

prose

• The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland (Carcanet, 1995);
• Readings in Poetry (Peppercanister, 2006).

Translations

• An Táin Bó Cuailgne , published as The Táin , illustrated by Louis le Brocquy (Dolmen, 1969);
• An Duanaire - Poems of the Dispossessed, an anthology of Gaelic poems edited by Seán Ó Tuama (Dolmen, 1981).

Web links

• Thomas Kinsella on Irish Writers Online (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Book of Members. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .