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Thomas Kinsella (1928–2021)

Author of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse

44+ Works 451 Members 2 Reviews 2 Favorited

About the Author

Includes the names: T. Kinsella, Thomas Kinsella, tr. Thomas Kinsella, trans. Thomas Kinsella, Trans. Thomas Kinsella, Thomas Kinsella, Translator, Thomas Kinsella, translator, translated by Thomas Kinsella, Professor of English Thomas Kinsella

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Works by Thomas Kinsella

The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1986) 209 copies, 1 review

Collected Poems: 1956-2001 (2001) 24 copies, 1 review

Poems, 1956-1973 (1979) 19 copies

The Collected Poems 1956-1994 (Oxford Poets) (1996) 19 copies

Nightwalker, and other poems (1968) 19 copies

Notes from the land of the dead, and other poems (1973) 16 copies

Peppercanister poems, 1972-1978 (1979) 14 copies

Selected Poems (2000) 10 copies

From Centre City (The Oxford Poets) (1990) 9 copies

Blood and Family (Oxford Paperbacks) (1988) 9 copies

A Dublin Documentary (2006) 8 copies

One and Other Poems (1979) 8 copies

Poems & Translations 7 copies

Selected Poems, 1956-68 (1973) 7 copies

Fifteen Dead (1979) 6 copies

Davis, Mangan, Ferguson? Tradition & the Irish writer (1970) 5 copies

Butcher's Dozen (1992) 5 copies

Late Poems (2013) 5 copies

The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland (Peppercanister, 18) (1995) 4 copies

Last Poems (2023) 3 copies

Belief and Unbelief (Peppercanister) (2007) 3 copies

Godhead (Peppercanister) (1999) 3 copies

Littlebody (2000) 3 copies

Another September (1962) 3 copies

Personal Places (1990) 3 copies

Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1958) 3 copies

Citizen of the World: Peppercanister 22 (2000) 2 copies

Man of War (Peppercanister) (2007) 2 copies

The Familiar, (Peppercanister) (1999) 2 copies

The Sons of Usnech: Longes Mac Nusnig: The Exile of the Sons of Usnech & The Exile of Fergus & The Death of the Sons of… (1960) 2 copies

Fat Master (Peppercanister) (2011) 2 copies

Downstream 2 copies

Prose Occasions 1951-2006 (2009) 2 copies

The pen shop (1997) 2 copies

One Fond Embrace (1988) 2 copies

New Poems, 1973 (1973) 1 copy

Longes Mac nUsnig: Being the Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech. One of 200 copies. 1 copy

Davis, Mangan, Ferguson? tradition and the Irish writer 1 copy

Wormwood 1 copy

Love joy peace (2011) 1 copy

Readings in poetry : [Shakespeare: Sonnets 29 and 30 ; Yeats: The tower ; Eliot: The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock] (2006) 1 copy

Open Court: (Peppercanister) (1991) 1 copy

Marginal Economy (Peppercanister S.) (2006) 1 copy

Faeth Fiadha: The Breastplate of Saint Patrick. 1 copy

Associated Works

The Táin (0800) — Translator, some editions — 1,933 copies, 24 reviews

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,308 copies, 9 reviews

The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Contributor, some editions — 271 copies, 3 reviews

The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1970) — Contributor — 204 copies

Duanaire, 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed (1981) — Translator, some editions — 116 copies, 1 review

Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (2001) — Contributor — 70 copies, 2 reviews

Selected Poems (1976) — Introduction, some editions — 38 copies

Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute (1992) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Kinsella, Thomas
Birthdate: 1928-05-04
Date of death: 2021-12-22
Gender: male
Nationality: Ireland
Birthplace: Inchicore, Dublin, Ireland
Place of death: Dublin, Ireland
Places of residence: Dublin, Ireland
Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Education: University College Dublin
Occupations: poet
civil servant
teacher
publisher
translator
Organizations: Peppercannister Press
Temple University, Philiadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Awards and honors: Guggenheim Fellowship
Denis Devlin Memorial Award
Irish Arts Council Triennial Book Award
Honorary Doctorate, University of Turin
Honorary Doctorate, University of Ireland
Freedom of the City of Dublin

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Reviews

Collected Poems: 1956-2001 by Thomas Kinsella

Love it 'flower stems, are harrow's teeth' . aah......

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ano | Mar 7, 2009 |

The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (Oxford Books of… by Thomas Kinsella

All-encompassing review of irish poetry from 500s AD to modern times.

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Poemblaze | Aug 7, 2006 |

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Works: 44
Also by: 8
Members: 451
Popularity: #54,392
Rating: 4.0

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 83
Languages: 1
Favorited: 2

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