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Archipelago: A Reader

Archipelago: A Reader

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ISBN-13: 9781843517825
Publisher: Lilliput Press, Limited, The
Publication date: 11/11/2021
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 848,711
Product dimensions: 6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Allen holds an endowed professorship in humanities at the University of Georgia. His latest book is Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled (Oxford, 2020). Fiona Stafford is Professor of English at University of Oxford (UK). Her books include Local Attachments (2010), The Long, Long Life of Trees (2016) and The Brief Life of Flowers (2017). Alice Oswald is a poet from Reading, recipient of the Eric Gregory Award, the Forward Poetry Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Dart. Kathleen Jamie is a Scottish writer, whose writing has appeared internationally. She has taught poetry at the University of Stirling since 2010. Robert Macfarlane is a Writing Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His work has won him the EM Forster Award for Literature. Sinéad Morrisey is a Northern Irish winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize. The Trinity College graduate has taught in Belfast and Newcastle. Andrew McNeillie is a Welsh poet, and current Literature Editor at Oxford University Press. His memoir An Aran Keening is published by The Lilliput Press, and he is founder of the Clutag Press. Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland in 1939, and died in Dublin aged 74. His career included teaching at Harvard and Oxford, and receiving the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the EM Firster Award, the PEN Translation prise, the Golden Wreath of Poetry. The T.S. Eliot Prize, two Whitbread Prizes, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Richard Murphy was an Anglo-Irish poet, and passed away in 2018. Recipient of many prestigious awards, including the AE Memorial Award and the American Irish Foundation Literary Award, he was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was included in the Oxford Companion to English Literature. Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet, and winner of the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and the PEN Pinter Prize in 2017. Derek Mahon is a Northern Irish poet. He studied at Trinity College and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has won the David Cohen Prize for Literature and the Poetry Now Award. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile is a graduate of the University of Oxford and University College Cork. She is associated with NUI, Galway, and the University of Notre Dame, and is known for her work in music studies.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note Nicholas Allen Fiona Stafford xv

A Note on the Archive Chris Fletcher xxi

Ireland

Derek Mahon (ONE)

Insomnia 5

Bernard O'Donoghue (ONE, TEN)

Geese Conversations 8

Ballybeg Priory 9

Norman Ackroyd (SIX)

Kilkieran Bay, Co, Galway, Golam Head 10

Moya Cannon (SEVEN)

Bees under Snow 12

Tim Robinson (NINE)

The Gods of The Neale 13

Deirdre Ni Chonghaile (TWELVE)

Greim an Fhir Bháite 21

Norman Ackroyd (ELEVEN)

Inishbofin Sound 31

Andrew McNeillie (CLUTAG BLOG, 2018)

Richard Murphy 32

Richard Murphy (ELEVEN)

Connemara Quay 34

Andrew McNeillie (FOUR)

Where Art Meets Sea: Ackroyd, Heaney, Murphy, Dunn 48

Richard Sharland (TWELVE)

Photographs of the Ave Maria Awaiting Restoration 59

Robert Macfarlane (THREE)

On Tory Island 60

Norman Ackroyd (THREE)

Malin Etchings: From Malin Head; Tor Rocks, Malin 65

Seamus Heaney (TWO)

Loughanure 66

Terry Eagleton (TWO)

West Is South 70

Les Murray (SEVEN)

All of Half Way 78

Scotland

Norman Ackroyd (ONE)

Ailsa Craig 82

Mary Wellesley (TEN)

Ailsa 84

Alan Riach (TWELVE)

Scotland: Drawing a Line 95

David Douglas and Angus Macmillan (EIGHT)

Mujo 106

Kathleen Jamie (NINE)

Well Doubtful 113

James Macdonald Lockhart (FOUR)

Raptor 120

Mick Imlah (ONE)

Muck 130

Mark Cocker (TEN)

Maxwell at a Venture 134

Angela Leighton (SEVEN)

Bog Asphodel 144

Seamus Heaney (SEVEN)

Hallaig 145

Roger Hutchinson (SEVEN)

The Other Side of Sorrow 148

John Purser (TWELVE)

Freaghairt bho Iain gu Rody Gorman 159

James Macdonald Lockhart (TWELVE)

On the Machair 160

Alan Riach (SIX)

Returning to Assynt 169

Michael Longley (THREE)

On the Shetland's 177

Alan Riach (EIGHT)

Infinite Whalsay 179

Tim Dee (THREE)

Darkless Night 193

Norman Ackroyd (NINE)

The Broch of Mousa; The Noup of Noss 200

Sally Huband (TWELVE)

Black Stane 201

Peter Davidson (EIGHT)

The Latitudes of Twilight 210

Douglas Dunn (EIGHT)

A Basket of Apples 222

Other Worlds

Tim Dee (NINE)

Atlantic Seaboard 227

Tim Robinson (TEN)

The Centre of Gravity: Two Incidents Joined by a Note 238

John Elder (SIX)

Catchments 244

Sinéad Morrissey (EIGHT)

Jigsaw 259

Andrew McNeillie (ELEVEN)

The Minotaur and the White Cow 261

Norman Ackroyd (ELEVEN)

Croagh Patrick from Inisturk 274

Andrew McNeillie

The Corncrake Timer 275

Michael Longley (TWELVE)

Wild Orchids 276

Gail McNeillie (FOUR)

Spring Flowers 278

Douglas Dunn (EIGHT)

Botanies 279

Mick Imlah (TWO)

Wallflower 281

John Kerrigan (FIVE)

Archipelagic Oz 284

Les Murray (THREE)

Lunar Eclipse 296

Andrew McNeillie (ONE)

Ghosts: Ian Niall (1916-2002) 298

Barbara Greg (NINE)

Woodcut 300

Andrew McNeillie (THREE)

I.m.lah 301

Douglas Dunn (ELEVEN)

Dairsie War Memorial 303

Seamus Heaney (ONE)

Fragment: 'Nairn in Darkness and in Light' 304

Andrew McNeillie

Lunch with Seamus 305

Seamus Heaney (TWO)

The Fields of Light 307

England

Ivor Gurney (THREE)

Prose & Poetry 313

Philip Lancaster (THREE)

Ivor Gurney 317

Jem Poster (TWO)

Ghosts: Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies 324

Jos Smith (ELEVEN)

White Thresholds - Fugitive Space 332

Katherine Rundell (FOUR)

Bate's Greed 344

Robert Macfarlane (TEN)

Fold, Twist, Loop, Layer, Slip - Towards a Topology of a Topography 351

Alexandra Harris (TWELVE)

Flint 358

David Lea (TWELVE)

Marvels of the Night 366

Gail McNeillie (SIX)

Wake-Up Call 373

Alice Oswald (SIX)

Two Voices 374

Mark Cocker (TEN)

Blackwater: Commonplace Things 375

Geoffrey Hill (EIGHT)

Expostulations on the Volcano 47 380

John Brannigan (ELEVEN)

Leaves 382

Tim Dee (TWO)

Neither Sea, nor Land 393

Angela Leighton (TWO)

Two Poems for Maggi Hambling 402

Jos Smith and Rose Eerraby (TWELVE)

Warp-land, Holderness 404

Angela Leighton (TWELVE)

Unquiet Sleepers 415

Mick Imlah (FOUR)

Westmorland 422

Geoffrey Hill (six)

From The Daybooks IV: ODI BARBARE 423

Wales

Gwyneth Lewis (NINE)

Otherworlds 433

Andrew McNeillie (EIGHT)

In Search of Miriam 446

Angharad Price (ONE)

Tynybraich 457

Roger Deakin (ONE)

Wood 463

John Eifion Jones (TEN)

Llyn 477

Robert Macfarlane (ONE)

Island 487

Afterwords

James Macdonald Lockhart

'Things Foreknown' 509

Andrew McNeillie

Archipelago: A Life 515

Acknowledgments 577

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