The Mischievous Boy and Other Poems

In this far-reaching collection Maurice Harmon extends the examination of modern Irish life that he began twenty years ago. The Mischievous Boy exposes the conditions of life in Ireland through various manifestations - in James Joyce, Thomas Kinsella, and William Carleton. In a style of luminous simplicity Harmon gives us elegies, love poems and humorous asides, delicate evocations of love and loss, considerations of misunderstanding between fathers and sons, a discussion of the attraction between men and women against the stark background of uxoricide, and portrait poems of greedy politicians.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Harmon
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 26.06.2009
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781903392867
• ISBN: 978-1-903392-86-7
• Pages: 78
• Dimensions (packing): 12.7 x 19.8 x 0.8 cm
• Weight (packing): 113 g
• Series: Salmon poetry; Salmon poetry
• Subjects: Poetry; POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh