Brave Answers
Uncollected Poems, by RS Thomas, edited by Tony Brown and Jason Walford Davies, Bloodaxe, 192 pp, £9.95, ISBN: 978-1852248963 RS Thomas’s Uncollected Poems is a substantial collection, 150 pages of...
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The Letters of Thom Gunn, Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler and Clive Wilmer (eds), Faber & Faber, 800 pp, £40, ISBN: 978-0571362554 When Thom Gunn visited England in 1979, it was to take part in a...
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Going to My Father’s House: A History of my Times, by Patrick Joyce, Verso, 368 pp, £25, ISBN: 978-1839763243 Patrick Joyce is a historian who has kept a watchful eye on the predilections of his...
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Taoisigh and the Arts, by Kevin Rafter, Martello, 242 pp, €16, ISBN: 978-1999896881 In 1921, the second Dáil innovatively nominated a minister for fine arts, Count Horace Plunkett, and two staff. In...
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