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Twenty One Sonnets / Gabriel Fitzmaurice

Twenty One Sonnets

By: Gabriel Fitzmaurice

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This is deeply indigenous poetry, vitally in touch with a loved community and its experience.  Les Murray These sonnets make the best collection yet of Fitzmaurice's adult poems.  Declan Kiberd [T]he best contemporary, traditional, popular poet in English.  Ray Olson, Booklist Fitzma...
ISBN 978-1-903392-68-3
Pub Date Monday, October 01, 2007
Cover Image Brenda Fitzmaurice
Page Count 56
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This is deeply indigenous poetry, vitally in touch with a loved community and its experience.  Les Murray

These sonnets make the best collection yet of Fitzmaurice's adult poems.  Declan Kiberd

[T]he best contemporary, traditional, popular poet in English.  Ray Olson, Booklist

Fitzmaurice is a wonderful poet.  Giles Foden, The Guardian

He has a gift for making the quotidian interesting and investing the ordinary with extraordinary significance.  Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, The Celtic Pen

[Fitzmaurice] is poetry's answer to J[ohn] B. Keane.  Fred Johnston, Books Ireland

[Fitzmaurice] favours the sonnet and is able to manipulate this challenging form very effectivelyAngela Topping, Orbis

[Fitzmaurice] is a master of the sonnet form.  Eugene O'Connell, Southword

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

GABRIEL FITZMAURICE was born, in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, Co. Kerry where he still lives. For over thirty years he taught in the local primary school from which he retired as principal in 2007. He is author of more than sixty books, including collections of poetry in English and Irish as well as several collections of verse for children. He has translated extensively from the Irish and has edited a number of anthologies of poetry in English and Irish. He has published volumes of essays and collections of songs and ballads. Poems of his have been set to music and recorded by Brian Kennedy and performed by the RTÉ Cór na nÓg with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. An Honorary Member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts in Hungary, he is a recipient of the Listowel Writers’ Week John B. Keane Lifetime Achievement Award. He frequently broadcasts on radio and television on culture and the arts. 

Home

My family are dying one by one,
My uncles and my aunts-just Peg now left:
The ones who, returning to Moyvane,
Brought England with them in the way they dressed.
They'd travel home from Shannon on the bus
(We'd no cars back then to make the trip),
Though a lifetime "over", they spoke the same as us,
Still the same old Kerry accent rough and rich.
They never lost their Kerry: they'd no need
To lose themselves in England, or to pine
For Ireland lost as they passed on their seed;
My cousins are English, and our line
Still comes home to visit: they belong,
A people and a place that still are one.

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