Anthony Bradley, ed., Contemporary Irish poetry: An Anthology (Univ. of California Press 1980)

Bibliograpical details: Anthony Bradley, ed., Contemporary Irish poetry: An Anthology (Univ. of California Press 1980) [this edn.]. A new and revised edition of 1988 (420pp.) which incls. poems by Tom Paulin, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Durcan, Aidan Carl Mathews, Anne Hartigan, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, et al. [Available California UP - online; accessed 16.02.2010.)

Samuel Beckett
  • “Enueg I”
  • “I Would Like My Love To Die”
  • “Malacoda”
 
Eavan Boland
  • “Athene’s Song”
  • “Child Of Our Time”
  • “New Territory”
  • “Song”
  • “The War Horse”
 
Ciaran Carson
  • “The Bomb Disposal”
  • “The Car Cemetery”
  • “The Insular Celts”
  • “St Ciaran And The Birds”
  • “Visiting The Dead”
 
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
  • “Dead Fly”
  • “Lucina Schynning In Silence Of The Night”
  • “Old Roads”
  • “Site Of Ambush: Narration”
  • “Swineherd”
 
Austin Clarke
  • “Dirge”
  • “Eighteenth Century Harp Songs: 1. Mabel Kelly”
  • “Eighteenth Century Harp Songs: 2. Gracey Nugent”
  • “The Envy Of Poor Lovers”
  • “Heart-breaking Sound”
  • “Inscription For A Headstone”
  • “The Last Republicans”
  • “Martha Blake At Fifty-one”
  • “My Mother Wept Loudly”
  • “Night And Morning”
  • “Pilgrimage”
  • “The Planter’s Daughter”
  • “The Straying Student”
  • “Tenebrae”
  • “Three Poems About Children: 1”
  • “Three Poems About Children: 2”
  • “Three Poems About Children: 3”
 
Brian Coffey
  • “Advent [sels.]”
  • “Headrock”
  • “Missouri Sequence: Nightfall, Midwinter, Missouri”
  • “The Nicest Phantasies Are Shared”
 
Anthony Cronin
  • “Odalisque”
  • “Anarchist”
  • “Apology”
  • “Autumn Poem”
  • “The Elephant To The Girl In Bertram Mills' Circus”
  • “Surprise”
 
Seamus Deane
  • “Derry”
  • “Elegy: Three”
  • “Fording The River”
  • “Northern Ireland: Two Comments: One: A Husband”
  • “Northern Ireland: Two Comments: Two: A Wife”
  • “Scholar 2”
 
Denis Devlin
  • “Ank'hor Vat”
  • “Anteroom: Geneva”
  • “Chartres”
  • “Daphne Stillorgan”
  • “Ile-st-louis”
  • “Lough Derg”
  • “Renewal By Her Element”
  • “Wishes For Her”
 
Charles Donnelly
  • “The Flowering Bars”
  • “Poem”
  • “The Tolerance Of Crows”
 
Padraic Fallon
  • “For Paddy Mac”
  • “The Head”
  • “Odysseus”
  • “Pot Shot”
  • “Weir Bridge”
 
Padraic Fiacc
  • “Brendan Gone”
  • “Gloss”
  • “Haemorrhage”
  • “The Poet”
 
Michael Hartnett
  • “All The Death-room Needs”
  • “Death Of An Irishwoman”
  • “For My Grandmother, Bridget Halpin”
  • “Gaelic Is The Conscience Of Our Leaders”
  • “I Have Exhausted The Delighted Range”
  • “I Think Sometimes”
  • “Marban, A Hermit, Speaks”
  • “The Retreat Of Ita Cagney; For Liam Brady”
  • “A Small Farm”
 
Seamus Heaney
  • “Badgers”
  • “Digging”
  • “A Dream Of Jealousy”
  • “England’s Difficulty”
  • “The Grauballe Man”
  • “In Small Townlands”
  • “Limbo”
  • “Linen Town; High Street, Belfast, 1786”
  • “Mossbawn: Two Poems In Dedication. 1. Sunlight”
  • “Mossbawn: Two Poems In Dedication. 2. The Seed Cutters”
  • “A Northern Hoard: 1. Roots”
  • “A Northern Hoard: 2. No Man’s Land”
  • “Requiem For The Croppies”
  • “The Singer’s House”
  • “Singing School: 6. Exposure”
  • “Triptych; After A Killing”
  • “Triptych; At The Water’s Edge”
  • “Triptych; Sibyl”
  • “Trout”
  • “The Wanderer”
 
John Hewitt
  • “Because I Paced My Thought”
  • “Ireland”
  • “An Irishman In Coventry”
  • “A Minor Victorian Painter”
  • “Once Alien Here”
  • “The Spectacle Of Truth”
 
Pearse Hutchinson
  • “Copper-beech And Butter-fingers”
  • “Distortions”
  • “Into Their True Gentleness”
 
Valetine Iremonger
  • “Hector”, by Valentin Iremonger.
  • “Icarus”, by Valentin Iremonger.
  • “This Houre Her Vigill”, by Valentin Iremonger.
 
Patrick Kavanagh
  • “Canal Bank Walk”
  • “Epic”
  • “The Hospital”
  • “If Ever You Go To Dublin Town”
  • “In Memory Of My Mother”
  • “Lines Written On A Seat On The Grand Canal, Dublin”
  • “Maguire Is Not Afraid Of Death, The Church Will Light Him A Candle”
  • “October”
  • “Shancoduff”
  • “Stony Grey Soil”
  • “Tinker’s Wife”
  • “To Hell With Commonsense”
  • “To The Man After The Harrow”
 
Richard Kell
  • “Calypso”
  • “Fishing Harbour Towards Evening”
  • “The Makers”
 
Brendan Kennelly
  • “The Grip”
  • “My Dark Fathers”
  • “Proof”
  • “The Thatcher”
 
Thomas Kinsella
  • “19.”
  • “23.”
  • “Another September”
  • “Baggot Street Deserta”
  • “Clarence Mangan”
  • “A Country Walk”
  • “Cover Her Face”
  • “Death Bed”
  • “The Ground Opens. Pale Wet Potatoes”
  • “Hen Woman”
  • “Mirror In February”
  • “The Moment Of Departure”
  • “Stones Of A Century And A Half Ago”
  • “Trophied Head”
  • “Wormwood”
 
James Liddy
  • “History”
  • “The Republic 1939”
  • “Thinking Of Bookshops”
  • “The Voice Of America 1961”
 
Michael Longley
  • “Christopher At Birth”
  • “Desert Warfare”
  • “Emily Dickinson”
  • “Epithalamion”
  • “Fleadh”
  • “Irish Poetry”
  • “Kindertotenlieder”
  • “Man Lying On A Wall; Homage To L.s. Lowry”
  • “Peace; After Tibullus”
  • “The Small Hotel”
 
Sean Lucy
  • “Longshore Intellectual”
  • “Senior Members”
  • “Supervising Examinations”
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Donagh MacDonagh
  • “Charles Donnelly” [sel.]
  • “Just An Old Sweet Song”
  • “The Veterans”
  • “A Warning To Conquerors”
 
Tom McIntyre
  • “Child”
  • “The Corrs”
  • “Sweet Killen Hill; After Irish Of Peadar O Doirnin”
  • “Yellow Bittern; After Irish Of Cathal Buidhe Macgiolla Gunna”
 
Frederick Louis MacNeice
  • “Dublin”
  • “Snow”
  • “Trilogy For X” [sel.]
 
Derek Mahon
  • “Afterlives”
  • “Consolations Of Philosophy”
  • “A Departure”
  • “A Disused Shed In Co. Wexford”
  • “Ecclesiastes”
  • “Glengormley”
  • “I Am Raftery”
  • “An Image From Beckett”
  • “In Carrowdore Churchyard; At The Grave Of Louis Macneice”
  • “Matthew V.29-30”
  • “The Snow Party; For Louis Asekoff”
 
Hugh Maxton
  • “Cernunnos”, by Hugh Maxton.
  • “Dialectique”, by Hugh Maxton.
  • “Landscape With Minute Wildflowers”, by Hugh Maxton.
  • “Mastrim: A Meditation”, by Hugh Maxton.
  • “Waking”, by Hugh Maxton.
 
Thomas McGreevy
  • “Aodh Ruadh O'domhnaill”
  • “De Civitate Hominum”
  • “Homage To Marcel Proust”
  • “Nocturne Of The Self-evident Presence”
  • “Recessional”
 
John Montague
  • “All Legendary Obstacles Lay Between”
  • “The Cage”
  • “A Grafted Tongue”
  • “The Hag Of Beare”
  • “Herbert Street Revisited”
  • “Lament For The O’Neills”
  • “A New Siege: An Historical Meditation, Sels”
  • “Special Delivery”
  • “That Room”
  • “Walking Late”
  • “The Wild Dog Rose”
  • “Wild Sports Of The West”
  • “Windharp”
 
Paul Muldoon
  • “Armageddon, Armageddon, Sels”, by Paul Muldoon.
  • “Clonfeacle”, by Paul Muldoon.
  • “The Field Hospital”, by Paul Muldoon.
  • “The Indians On Alcatraz”, by Paul Muldoon.
  • “Mules”, by Paul Muldoon.
 
Richard Murphy
  • “Deep Red Bogs Divided”, by Richard Murphy.
  • “Enigma”, by Richard Murphy.
  • “God Was Eaten In Secret Places Among The Rocks”, by Richard Murphy.
  • “High Island”, by Richard Murphy.
  • “The Philosopher And The Birds”, by Richard Murphy.
  • “The Poet On The Island; To Theodore Roethke”, by Richard Murphy.
  • “Seals At High Island”, by Richard Murphy.
  • “Trouvaille”, by Richard Murphy.
 
Michael O’Donovan [Frank O’Connor]
  • “The Angry Poet”
  • “Hope”
  • “On The Death Of His Wife”
  • “The End Of Clonmacnois” [trans].
 
Desmond O’Grady
  • “The Day Concludes Burning”
  • “If I Went Away”
  • “The Pitch Piles Up In Part”
  • “The Poet In Old Age Fishing At Evening”
  • “Professor Kelleher And The Charles River”
 
Frank Ormsby
  • “Amelia Street”
  • “Inferno: A New Circle”
  • “Interim”
  • “On Devenish Island”
  • “Ornaments”
 
Stewart Parker
  • “Chicago Allegory”
  • “Health”
  • “Three Fitts”
  • “Chicago Allegory”
 
Susan Parker
  • “Health”
  • “Three Fitts”
 
William Robert Rodgers
  • “The Net”
  • “Paired Lives”
  • “Scapegoat”
 
Richard Ryan
  • “From My Lai The Thunder Went West”
  • “Ireland”
  • “Knockmany”
  • “Kohoutek”
  • “A Wet Night”
  • “Wulf And Eadwacer”
 
James Simmons
  • “Art And Beauty”
  • “Experience”
  • “Fear Test: Integrity Of Heroes”
  • “John Donne”
  • “Letter To A Jealous Friend”
 
Michael Smith
  • “The Advice Of An Efficiency Expert”
  • “At The Appointed Hour They Came”
  • “Blond Hair At The Edge Of The Pavement”
  • “The Desolate Rhythm Of Dying Recurs”
  • “Here Is The Abattoir Where”
  • “Heritage”
  • “She’s My Love”
  • “Woman, Don't Be Troublesome”
 
Richard Weber
  • “Envying The Pelican”
  • “The Poet’s Day”
  • “A Primer For Schoolchildren”

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