Description
A landmark collection from Patrick Kavanagh gathers poems that move with startling range—from comic mischief and cantankerous candor to moments of near-biblical exaltation. At its heart is “The Great Hunger,” a tragic masterpiece that follows the pressures of rural life and the human cost of poverty, longing, and missed chances, while the surrounding poems deepen the portrait of a voice both fiercely local and universally felt. Across the book, Kavanagh’s distinctive style—plainspoken yet lyrical, unsentimental yet compassionate—turns everyday landscapes into arenas for moral struggle, spiritual hunger, and the search for meaning. Read for its emotional intensity and its transformation of Anglo-Irish verse, this collection captures a poet at full voltage, unafraid to laugh, to rage, and to mourn.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Feb 22, 2018
64 pages
ISBN: 9780241339343
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Details
First Published
1942
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh.