Between Innocence and Peace: Favourite Poems of Ireland

Brendan Kennelly has chosen poems that give him a thrill or a laugh, poems that he is glad to read again and again for a whole host of reasons.They're all here sad poems, mad poems, funny poems, lonely poems, poems that demonstrate and celebrate the partitioned culture of Ireland, poems by and about women, poem that tells he's beautifully and truths clumsily, poems that sing the pains and joys of history, that tell of spiritual desolation, physical desire, remorse, love, myth, exile, homesickness, hatred, dreams, prejudice, nightmares, superstition, illness, health, war, religion, disaster and death. And all, all between innocence and peace.