John Hewitt Selected Poems
by Longley, MichaelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-08-15
Publisher(s): Blackstaff Pr Ltd
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Summary
A testament To The poet's remarkable literary legacy, and a celebration of a unique, compelling voice in Irish poetry.
Table of Contents
| from Conacre | p. 1 |
| Once alien here | p. 8 |
| First corncrake | p. 9 |
| East Antrim winter | p. 10 |
| The swathe uncut | p. 11 |
| Lyric ('let but a thrush begin ...') | p. 12 |
| Lyric ('chestnut and beech ...') | p. 13 |
| Leaf | p. 14 |
| Load | p. 15 |
| Frost | p. 16 |
| Ghosts | p. 17 |
| Mykonos | p. 19 |
| Mycenae and Epidaurus | p. 20 |
| Turf-carrier on Aranmore | p. 21 |
| Because I paced my thought | p. 23 |
| The green shoot | p. 24 |
| First snow in the glens | p. 26 |
| Colour | p. 27 |
| Landscape | p. 28 |
| The Ram's horn | p. 29 |
| O country people | p. 30 |
| Man fish and bird | p. 32 |
| The colony | p. 36 |
| The stoat | p. 41 |
| The watchers | p. 42 |
| Hedgehog | p. 43 |
| Rite, lubicavish, glenaan | p. 44 |
| The owl | p. 45 |
| The municipal gallery revisited, October 1954 | p. 47 |
| Ossian's Grave, Lubicavish, County Antrim | p. 49 |
| The frontier | p. 51 |
| Jacob and the angel | p. 52 |
| An Irishman in coventry | p. 53 |
| Whit Monday | p. 55 |
| My grandmother's garter | p. 56 |
| April awake | p. 58 |
| Footing turf | p. 59 |
| Sunset over Glenaan | p. 60 |
| May altar | p. 62 |
| The ballad | p. 63 |
| The wake | p. 64 |
| The bell | p. 65 |
| The hill-farm | p. 66 |
| Gloss, on the difficulties of translation | p. 67 |
| An Ulsterman | p. 68 |
| The dilemma | p. 69 |
| Street names | p. 70 |
| The coasters | p. 71 |
| Black and white | p. 74 |
| The storm | p. 75 |
| From the Chinese of Wang Li Shi | p. 76 |
| Chinese fluteplayer | p. 77 |
| Emily Dickinson | p. 78 |
| Scissors for a one-armed tailor | p. 79 |
| Grey and white | p. 80 |
| Skypiece | p. 81 |
| I write for ... | p. 82 |
| The search | p. 83 |
| From the Tibetan | p. 85 |
| Et Tu in Arcadia Vixisti | p. 87 |
| The scar | p. 88 |
| Mary Hagan, Islandmagec, 1919 | p. 89 |
| The king's horses | p. 90 |
| Cultra manor : the Ulster folk museum | p. 91 |
| Neither an elegy nor a manifesto | p. 92 |
| A birthday rhyme for Roberta | p. 95 |
| Substance and shadow | p. 96 |
| Encounter nineteen twenty | p. 97 |
| A mobile mollusc | p. 98 |
| A local poet | p. 99 |
| For a moment of darkness over the nations | p. 100 |
| The romantic | p. 101 |
| The glens of antrim | p. 102 |
| The blossomed thorn | p. 103 |
| A father's death | p. 104 |
| from Sonnets for Roberta (1954) | p. 105 |
| A happy boy | p. 106 |
| Balloons and wooden guns | p. 107 |
| The volunteer | p. 108 |
| The magician | p. 109 |
| Orchard country | p. 110 |
| The doctor's bag | p. 111 |
| A holy place | p. 112 |
| My sister | p. 113 |
| The Irish dimension | p. 114 |
| Carnations | p. 115 |
| I lie alone | p. 116 |
| The glens | p. 117 |
| The man from Malabar | p. 118 |
| The covenanter's grave | p. 119 |
| A house demolished | p. 120 |
| The Christmas rhymers, Ballynure, 1941 | p. 121 |
| For Roberta in the garden | p. 122 |
| The hedgehog : for R | p. 123 |
| To the people of Dresden | p. 124 |
| from Freehold | p. 125 |
| Ulster names | p. 135 |
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