Peter Fallon : poet, publisher, editor and translator / editor : Richard Rankin Russell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Russell, Richard Rankin.

Fallon, Peter, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fallon, Peter, 1951-.

Fallon, Peter.

Intellectual life.

Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--Intellectual life--21st century.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 268 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Kildare : Irish Academic, 2014.

Summary:

In this unique volume, edited by Richard Rankin Russell, a luminous group of Irish and international writers gather to pay tribute to Irish published and poet Peter Fallon, recognizing his immense contribution to literary and artistic life in Ireland and beyond. Essays on Fallon's life and literary legacy have been contributed by a distinguished group, including, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Dennis O'Driscoll, Maurice Harmon, Justin Quinn and Wendell Berry. Part V is an exclusive and moving collection of new poems in honour of Fallon by his friends and fellow poets, Richard Wilbur, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson amongst many others. Peter Fallon has run The Gallery Press since 1970, publishing hundreds of titles in Irish poetry, drama and fiction, and with Timothy Engelland established The Deerfield Press in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Fallon has written many volumes of his own poetry; co-edited, with Derek Mahon, the influential 1990 collection The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry; adapted into dramatic from Patrick Kavanagh's novel Tarry Flynn; published an acclaimed translation of Virgil's Georgics in 2004 and will shortly publish a translation from Hesiod, Deeds and Their Days. In 2009 he received an Alumni Award from Trinity College, Dublin, was appointed Adjunct Professor of English in 2010, and is a member of the prestigious arts group Aosdána. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Fallon and the Gallery Press

The Dublin Arts Festival, 1970: Capella, The Book of Invasions, and the Original Gallery Books / Thomas Dillon Redshaw Redshaw, Thomas Dillon 1

Gallery at the Abbey: An Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Reading / Seamus Heaney Heaney, Seamus 23

Peter Fallon Revisited / Dennis O'Driscoll O'Driscoll, Dennis 27

Works and Days / Dereh Mahon Mahon, Dereh 45

Part II The Contours of Fallon's Creative Work

Peter Fallon's Profane Rituals / Maurice Harmon Harmon, Maurice 49

Double Vision: Peter Fallon's Landscapes with Figures / John McAuliffe McAuliffe, John 79

'This blooming place': Peter Fallon's Tarry Flynn / Thomas O'Grady O'Grady, Thomas 93

Fellow Feeling: or Mourning, Metonymy Masculinity / Ed Madden Madden, Ed 107

Part III Fallon and the Natural World

All That Lasts: Peter Fallon's Loughcrew / Shaun O'Connell O'Connell, Shaun 135

Nature's News: The Place(s) of Peter Fallon's Poetry / Richard Rankin Russell Russell, Richard Rankin 139

The Obscenities and Audiences of Peter Fallon / Justin Quinn Quinn, Justin 161

Peter Fallon's Georgics: Praises, Lessons and Lamentations in Virgil's 'studies of the arts of peace' / Joseph Heininger Heininger, Joseph 178

Part IV Fallon and America

Notes on Peter Fallon's The Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart / Joyce Peseroff Peseroff, Joyce 200

The News of Poetry, or, What Love Does Life Require? / Bryan Giemza Giemza, Bryan 209

Foreword to Airs and Angels by Peter Fallon / Wendell Berry Berry, Wendell 227

Horsetail 232

Sugar Maples, January / Richard Wilbur Wilbur, Richard 233

Part V Poems in Honour of Peter Fallon

On Cutting One's Finger While Reaching for Jasmine / Medbh McGuckian McGuckian, Medbh 235

The Dark Room / Bernard O'Donoghue O'Donoghue, Bernard 236

Colmcille on Exile / Paul Muldoon Muldoon, Paul 237

Revision / Conor O'Callaghan O'Callaghan, Conor 239

An Chaor Aduaidh / The Northern Lights / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Dhomhnaill, Nuala Ni 240

The Dapple-Grey Mare / Seamus Heaney Heaney, Seamus 241

The Given Light / Michael Coady Coady, Michael 244

Before What Will Come After / Alan Gillis Gillis, Alan 246

Shed / John McAuliffe McAuliffe, John 249

Minute 251

Out and About 251

Leaving / Eamon Grennan Grennan, Eamon 252

The Blue Pencil 254

A Bee-Hive / David Wheatley Wheatley, David 255

Ancestral Roads / Gerard Smyth Smyth, Gerard 256

Monet's Palette, Musée Marmottan / Vona Groarke Groarke, Vona 257

Blackberries / Ciaran Carson Carson, Ciaran 260.

Notes:

Festschrift for Peter Fallon.

ISBN:

9780716531593

0716531593

9780716532255

0716532255

OCLC:

869782540