Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Hardie, Kerry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852248904 ISBN 13 : 9781852248901

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Kerry Hardie is one of Ireland’s leading poets. Her Selected Poems covers work written over two decades and draws on five collections.

Her poetry questions, celebrates and challenges all aspects of life and experience, but ultimately is concerned with the quiet realisation that ‘there is nothing to do in the world except live in it’.

A number of her poems are narratives or parables in which experience yields a spiritual lesson and consolation; others chart a coming to terms with death or illness and an acceptance of inevitability or flux. Human life quivers in consort with other lives in these seasons of the heart.

'Our trust reposes in such clear, open writing. Hardie’s later poems are barer, more strongly narrative, and sometimes read like parables and portraits at once… The poems speak to us from gardens as well as graveyards, from private homes as much as churches, and, most often, from the borders and boundaries that the poems speak so often and beautifully of breaching or attempting to breach' - John McAuliffe, The Irish Times.

‘Kerry Hardie writes about the here and now, the everyday and the ordinary in an authentic lyric voice. She speaks of God in our secular age without unease or embarrassment. This deeply spiritual book is deceptively immediate and it yields its mystery and depth in each rereading’ – Judges’ citation, Michael Hartnett Award for Poetry, 2005.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kerry Hardie was born in 1951 and grew up in County Down. She now lives in County Kilkenny with her husband, the writer and artist Seán Hardie. Her poems have won many prizes, including the Michael Hartnett Award for Poetry, the National Poetry Prize (Ireland), the Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Award, the James Joyce Suspended Sentence Award (Australia) and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry (USA). Her poems have featured in The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (2010) and The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry (2011) as well as in ten Bloodaxe anthologies: Staying Alive, Being Alive, Being Human, Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy, Staying Human, Soul Feast, In Person: World Poets, The Poetry Cure, The New Irish Poets and Modern Women Poets.

She published six collections with Gallery Press: A Furious Place (1996), Cry for the Hot Belly (2000), The Sky Didn’t Fall (2003), The Silence Came Close (2006), Only This Room (2009) and The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree (2012). Her Selected Poems (2011) was published by Gallery Press in Ireland and by Bloodaxe Books in Britain. Her books have been published by Bloodaxe in both the UK and Ireland since 2014, starting with her seventh collection, The Zebra Stood in the Night, which was shortlisted for the Irish Times–Poetry Now Award. This was followed in 2020 by Where Now Begins. Her ninth collection We Go On (Bloodaxe Books, 2024) won the Pigott Poetry Prize 2025.

Her first novel, Hannie Bennet’s Winter Marriage appeared in 2000; her second, The Bird Woman was published in 2006. Kerry Hardie is a member of Aosdána.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852248904
• ISBN 13: 9781852248901
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Éditeur: Fallon Peter
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible