Andrew J Fitzsimons

A Fire in the Head

A Fire in the Head contains two complementary works, both of which emerged out of the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake in Japan.The title poem-sequence takes the 5-7-5 form of the haiku to create an accumulating narrative of life adjusting to altered circumstance. The essay 'What Are Poets For...

What the Sky Arranges by Fitzsimons, Andrew (2013) Paperback

Prose Occasions: 1951-2006

A career-spanning selection of Thomas Kinsella's essays and reviews, this remarkable compendium makes available for the first time key works in modern Irish literature such as the poet’s discussions of the Gaelic tradition. Alongside writings on such figures as W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Austin Clarke...

The Sea of Disappointment: Thomas Kinsella's Pursuit of the Real

Considered to be one of the most inventive of the contemporary Irish poets, Thomas Kinsella is credited with bringing modernism to Irish verse. Despite such early successes, however, Kinsella seems to have faded into the background of the Irish poetic stage. In The Sea of Disappointment Andrew Fitzs...

What the Sky Arranges

The Tsurezuregusa is a collection of wise, witty, compassionate and, occasionally, cranky ruminations on the business of living by the monk, Kenko (c1283-c1350). The poems in What the Sky Arranges speak in a voice and tell of things derived from Kenko: reading, travel, good and bad taste, exile, art...

The sea of disappointment: Thomas Kinsella's 'Nightwalker' and the New Ireland.(Critical essay): An article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies

This digital document is an article from Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 8146 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is avai...