Journey Upstream : Poems by
Monaghan, Noel2024
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Journey Upstream is Noel Monahan’s ninth collection of poetry. Here we witness Monahan navigate his way through mythic landscapes to country towns and urban living. He dips into the community of artists and responds to works of art on the way. He loves to interrogate our past, our heritage and the poet’s place in today’s world of rapid change. Section 4, Let The Images Unfold, is the result of a collaborative work during the Covid-Shutdown with sculptor, Tom Meskell, musicians Daragh Slake and Pat McManus, and Monahan’s poetic response calls the animals in from the hills to occupy the streets and buildings. The final section, Maynooth Calling, deals with the poet’s short stay at Maynooth’s Seminary, once the largest seminary in the world. This is another of Monahan’s long prose poems, now familiar to many, and this finely wrought poem, both lyrical and satirical, comes alive on the page with enthralling dramatic effect. The reader is invited to join the poet as he makes that spiritual journey of discernment behind walls to the backdrop of ghost rooms, oratories of silence, trains passing in the night and bells ringing ...
Príomhtheideal:
Journey Upstream : Poems by / Noel Monaghan.
Údar:
Inphrionta:
Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare : Salmon Poetry, 2024
Leathanaigh in ord:
130 p. ; 24cm.
Nótaí:
Noel Monahan is a bilingual writer in English and Irish. He is a former Teacher & Deputy Principal and has won several literary awards: Poetry Ireland Seacat National Award, 2001 ; The P.J. O'Connor, RTE Radio Drama Award, 2001 ; The A.S.T.I. Achievements Award, 2002; The Hiberno-English Poetry Award, 2004 ; The Irish Writers Union Poetry Award, 2005 ; The Kilkenny Prize for Poetry and William Allingham Poetry Award. In February 2012 Longford County Council celebrated "The Lifetime Achievements of Noel Monahan's literary career". In April 2012, Noel received an Arts & Entertainment award from Northern Sound. A selection of his poems (Celui Qui Porte Un Veau & Autres Poemes) has been translated into French by Emmanuel Malherbet in 2014.
ISBN:
9781915022592
Rangúchán Dewey:
821 MON821/MONLC 821/MON
I dteanga:
English
BRN:
3374472