Poetry Publications of Brendan Kennelly

Source: Poetry Archive [online]. The Archive contains voice recordings of the poets including Kennelly. It enables purchase of in-print volumes through Poetry on Line (UK) [link] and is funded by public bodies and private individuals.

  • with Rudi Holzapfel, Cast a Cold Eye, Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1959).
  • with Rudi Holzapfel, The Rain, the Moon, Dolmen Press, 1961.
  • with Rudi Holzapfel, The Dark about Our Loves, Dublin: John Augustine and Co., 1962.
  • Rudi Holzapfel, Green Townlands: Poems, Leeds, University Bibliography Press, 1963.
  • Let Fall No Burning Leaf, Dublin: New Square Publications, 1963.
  • My Dark Fathers, New Square Publications, 1964.
  • Up and At It, New Square Publications, 1965.
  • Collection One: Getting up Early, Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1966.
  • Good Souls to Survive, Allen Figgis, 1967.
  • Dream of a Black Fox, Allen Figgis, 1968.
  • Selected Poems, Allen Figgis, 1969.
  • A Drinking Cup: Poems from the Irish, Allen Figgis, 1970.
  • ed., The Penguin Book of Irish Verse, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1970 (new ed. 1981).
  • Selected Poems, enl. edn., NY: Dutton, 1971.
  • Bread, Dublin: Tara Telephone Publications, 1972.
  • Love Cry, Allen Figgis, 1972.
  • Salvation, the Stranger, Tara Telephone Publications, 1972.
  • The Voices, Dublin: Gallery Books, 1973.
  • Shelley in Dublin: Dublin: Anna Livia Books, 1974 and Egotist Press 1977.
  • A Kind of Trust, Gallery Books, 1975.
  • New and Selected Poems, ed. Peter Fallon, Gallery Books, 1976.
  • Islandman, Dublin: Profile Press, 1977.
  • The Visitor, Dublin: St BuenO’s Press, 1978.
  • A Small Light, Gallery Books, 1979.
  • In Spite of the Wise [also as Evasions], Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1979.
  • The Boats Are Home, Gallery Books, 1980 (new ed. 1983).
  • Living Ghosts: 23 Poems by Brendan Kennelly, Audio Cassette, Dublin: Livia Records, 1982.
  • Shelley in Dublin [rev. edn.] Dublin: Beaver Row Press, 1982.
  • The House That Jack Didn't Build, Beaver Row Press, 1982.
  • Cromwell: A Poem, Beaver Row Press, 1983, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1987 (new edn. Bloodaxe 1997).
  • Moloney Up and At It, Cork and Dublin: Mercier Press, 1984.
  • Selected Poems, ed. Kevin Byrne, Dublin: Kerrymount Publications, 1985.
  • Mary: From the Irish, Dublin: Aisling Press, 1987.
  • trans., Love of Ireland : Poems from the Irish, Cork: Mercier Press, 1989, 2002).
  • A Time for Voices: Selected Poems 1960-1990, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1990 (new ed. 1997).
  • What Happens [to] All the People? Selected Poems, Audio Cassette, Dublin: Dermot Moynihan, 1991.
  • The Book of Judas: A Poem, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1991.
  • Breathing Spaces: Early Poems, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1992.
  • ed., Between Innocence and Peace: Favourite Poems of Ireland, Cork: Mercier Press, 1993.
  • ed., with Katie Donovan & A. Norman Jaffares, Ireland’s Women Writings Past and Present, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1994.
  • Journey into Joy: Selected Prose, ed. Ake Persson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1994.
  • Dark Fathers into Light: Bloodaxe Critical Anthologies, 2, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1994.
  • Poetry My Arse, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1995.
  • ed., Dublines, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1996.
  • The Man Made of Rain, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1998.
  • Poetry Quartets, 4, Audio cassette, British Council/Bloodaxe Books, 1999.
  • Begin, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1999.
  • Glimpses, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 2001.
  • The Little Book of Judas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 2002.
  • Martial Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 2003.
  • Familiar Strangers: New and Selected Poems 1960-2004, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 2004.
  • Brendan Kennelly Reading from his Poems, CD, The Poetry Archive, 2005.
  • In Person 30 Poets, ed. Neil Astley / Films by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Bloodaxe Books 2008.
Note: the first and 28 other editions noted as being out of print.

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