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Additional authors

1. Ennis, John, 1944-
2. Maggs, Randall
3. McKenzie, Stephanie
4. Scop Productions.
5. Waterford Institute of Technology. Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies.

Description

1. xx, 612 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Canadian poetry (English) > Newfoundland and Labrador
2. Canadian poetry
3. English poetry > Irish authors
4. Poésie anglaise > Auteurs irlandais
5. Poésie canadienne-anglaise > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador

Contents

1. Epigraph, William Ennis, 1796 -- Introduction -- FOR TO FIT YOU OUT FOR SEA -- Meshapush / Innu atanukan (Edward Rich, Narrator) -- Giant Hare / Marguerite MacKenzie (Translator) -- Wadhams Song / Wadham -- The Cliffs of Baccalieu / Jack Withers -- The Petty Harbour Bait Skiff / John Grace -- The Water Witch / Trad -- Lukey's Boat / Trad -- The Montague / Trad -- The Ryans and the Pittmans / H.W. Le Messurier -- A Great Big Sea Hove in Long Beach / Trad -- The Wave that Hit St. Brides / Daniel Payne -- The Shoals of Herring / Ewan MacColl -- Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's / Otto Kelland -- The Banks of Newfoundland / Trad -- The Wreck of the Steamship Ethie / Trad -- As: Eachtra Ghiolla an Amaráin/From: The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow / Donnchad Rua MacConmara -- Eanach Dhúin/Eanach Dhúin / Antoine Ó Reachtabhra/Raifteiri -- Caoineadh Athar/A Father's Lament / Seán Ó Muiríosa -- A FINE PLANTATION --^
2. Donnchad Ruadh i dTalamh-an-Éisc/Donnchad Ruadh in Newfoundland / Donnchad Rua MacConmara -- Carrickfergus / Trad -- The Streams of Bunclody / Trad -- The Prison of Newfoundland / Trad -- Deep in the Canadian Woods / Timothy Daniel Sullivan -- I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing / Joseph Campbell -- Tickle Cove Pond / Mark Walker -- Pat Murphy's Meadow / John Devine -- Home Free / Stephanie Payne -- Jerry Ryan / Len Butt -- Bucksaw Blues / Eugene Hutchings -- Sliabh Geal gCua na Féile/Bright and Welcoming Mountain / Pádraig Ó Mileadha -- THE RISING OF THE MOON -- The Poet Egan O'Rahilly, Homesick in Old Age / Thomas Kinsella -- Príosún Chluain Meala/The Fail of Clonmel / Trad -- Na Connerys/The Connerys / Trad -- The Rising of the Moon / John Keegan Casey -- Boolavogue / P.J. McCall -- Henry Joy McCracken / Trad -- Rody McCorley / Trad -- The Croppy Boy / William B. McBurney -- De groves of de Pool / Dick Millikin -- Dublin After the Union / Edward Lysaght --^
3. The burial of Sir John Moore / Rev. Charles Wolfe -- A Pastoral Ballad by John Bull / Thomas Moore -- Caoineadh Baintrí/A Widow's Lament / Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin -- Annie Moore / Trad -- Famine and Exportation / John O'Hagan -- Siberia / James Clarence Mangan -- Anti-Confederation Song / Trad -- The Government Game / Pat Byrne and Al Pittman -- WE LEFT THE BUNKHOUSE FEELING FINE -- Finnegan's Wake / Trad -- North Twin Lakes / Trad -- The Kelligrews Soiree / Johnny Burke -- Betsy Brennan's Blue Hen / Johnny Burke -- Chrissey's Dick / Trad -- Rubber Boots / Baxter Wareham -- The Night before Larry Was Stretched / J.P. Curran -- Squid-jiggin' Ground / Arthur Scammel -- The Pope / Trad -- The Carrick Nine / Michael Coady -- I SLEPT IN DUCK-DOWN/TIL NOONTIME CAME -- As: Caoneadh Airt Uí Laoghaire/From: The Lament for Art Ó Laoghaire / Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill -- As: Cúirt an Mheán Oiche/From The Midnight Court / Brian Merriman -- The Dark-eyed Sailor / Trad --^
4. The Tramway Line / Trad -- Fanny's Harbour Dawn / Mark Walker -- The Belfast Mountains / Trad -- An Chúilfhionn/The Cooleen or Coolun / Trad -- A Sweet Little Song / James N. Healy -- Mo bhrón ar an bhfarraige/My grief on the ocean / Trad -- The Spinning Wheel / John Francis Waller -- Brighid a Stóir/Breed Astore / Trad -- Cailín Beag an Ghleanna/Oh, Youth Whom I Have Kissed / Trad -- Éirigh Suas, a Stóirin/Rise Up, My Darling / Trad -- Thugamar Féin an Samhradh Linn/We Brought the Summer With Us / Trad -- Na Gamhna Geala/The White Calves / Trad -- Cailín as Contae Lú/A Lass From County Louth / Trad -- Dónall Óg/Young Donal / Trad -- An Draighneán Donn/The Dark Thorn Tree / Trad -- An cuimhin leat an oíche úd/Remember that night / Trad -- Cradle Hill / Al Pittman -- DEIRÍN DÉ -- Deirin Dé/Deirin Dé / Trad -- Surutsiutluta/When We Were Children / Sid Dicker -- The Lord's Prayer (Miʹkmaw Translation) / Bernie Francis -- A Mhuire na nGrás/Blessed Mary / Trad --^
5. Uvanga, Uvanga / Trad (Inuktitut) -- Ag Criost An Siol/To Christ The Seed / Trad -- THE BONE-AND-MARROW JUDGEMENT -- R.M.S. Titanic / Anthony Cronin -- The Ice-Floes. From: The Roosevelt and the Antinoe / E.J. Pratt -- The Cleggan Disaster / Richard Murphy -- Come Away, Death. The Fog. The Ground Swell. Erosion. Come Not the Seasons Here / E.J. Pratt -- RosiaKKulak/ Beautiful Rose / Joe K. Tuglavina -- The Song of Wandering Aengus. From: The Wanderings of Oisin. Down by the Salley Gardens. In memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz. Easter 1916. From: Meditations in Time of Civil War. The Wild Swans at Coole. Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats -- The Tomb of Michael Collins / Denis Devlin -- From: Missouri Sequence: Nightfall, Midwinter, Missouri / Brian Coffey -- Forget Me Now (1962) / Austin Clarke -- The Snow party / Derek Mahon --^
6. From: descending the mountain. 'after making love...', 'we return...', 'snowdrifts at my door...', 'the village graveyard...', 'the young plum pickers...', 'a wedge of geese...' / Nick Avis -- I HAVE LIVED IN IMPORTANT PLACES, TIMES -- Epic. The One. From: The Great Hunger. On Raglan Road / Patrick Kavanagh -- Dick King / Thomas Kinsella -- Dinit an Bhróin/Grief's Dignity. Cranna Foirtil/Stout Oars. Berkeley/Berkeley. Bogwood / Máirtin Ó Direáin -- Bogwood / Gregory Power -- The Mummer. The French Shore Man. In Picasso's 'Madman'. Edwardians (Old Photograph). The Veteran (I). Daedalus / Tom Dawe -- March 3, 1999 -- Notes on an upcoming anniversary. On a train heading northeast. The triangle of the heart. Wednesday. My friend's death. The Launch, Trinity Shipbuilders, Trinity, June 24, 1995. On being Catholic and loving the treachery of winter. I love you more than any God, not falsely / Des Walsh --^
7. Rosella and Bridge. Bachelor Brothers. Brin. Mad Moll and Crazy Betty. Old Holly. Old Roman Candle. Dead Indians / Mary Dalton -- AN OLD GRAY TREE ... IS TRANSFIGURED -- Summer Solstice. The Red-Throated Loon. Window. The Balcony Door. Cain. Confrontation. Yo-yo. Longliner at Sunset. Roses and Attic Throats. Waiting for Sunrise: Early December / Enos Watts -- Adhlacadh Mo Mháthar/My Mother's Burial Claustrophibia/Claustrophobia. Reo/Freeze. Fiabhras/Fever. Na Leamhain/The Moths / Seán Ó Riordáin -- Othelllo's Own Brother. Lighthouse. Frank. Mattie. Resonance. Talking to Trees. Magdalen at Tomb / David Elliott -- TOWARDS THE NEW OMAGH ROAD -- The Route of The Táin / Thomas Kinsella -- From: The Battle of Aughrim / Richard Murphy -- Butcher's Dozen (1972) / Thomas Kinsella -- Hymn to The New Omagh Road / John Montague -- Clearance. From: Sweeney Astray / Seamus Heaney -- From: Sketches for an Elegy / Julie O'Callaghan -- NAMING THE ISLANDS --^
8. 'Magic lantern' (April 1889). 'The price of fish' (September, 1887). 'Now in Africa among the Natives' (1891). 'A narrow escape almost but saved' (1892). 'Distance from Newfoundland. Northermost grave in the world (1913). 'At home on a cold winter's night. The changing scenes if Life' (1928). 'An old sailor's portion' (1932). Stones. Flame. Fog City. Naming the Island / Michael Crummy -- The Horses. Saint Laurence's Tears. Boiler Room Men. The New Sled. From: The Grey Island. 'he's out there...' 'Nels and his wife...' 'they all save...' 'I thought I was headed... 'when the rain comes...' 'on the bunk...' 'ducks swoop low...' Nels: 'There was my great uncle...' Nels: From the month of June...' Nels: This one spring...'. Cedar Cove. Sour Fire. Smoke. Arriving in Russell. That Night We Were Ravenous / John Steffler -- Bottled Rabbit. Drawing Skeletons. Bonavista / Ken Babstock -- HOMECOMING --^
9. Do Jack Kerouac/To Jack Kerouac. Transubstaintiu/Transubstantiation. Dia: Nótai Anailisti/God: Analyst's Notes. Haikú/Haiku. 'Speal mo sheanthar...'/My grandfather's scythe...' Dritheog nó dhó fágtha...'/'An ember or two glow...' 'Gealach na gcoinleach-'/'Harvest moon-'...' 'Oiche fhada gheimhridh-'/'Long Winter's night-'. I gCeann mo Thri Bliana, a Bhi Mé/When I Was Three / Cathal Ó Searcaigh -- Ciréib/Riot. Paddy/ Paddy / Gearóid Mac Lochlainn -- The Green Shoot. The Scar. A Belfastman Abroad Argues with Himself. Calling on Peadar O'Donnell at Dungloe. In Recollection of Drumcliffe, September 1948. Eager Journey / John Hewitt -- Of Difference Does it Make. Desertmartin. Purity. A Nation, Yet Again / Tom Paulin -- Telegrams. The Twisting of the Rope / Bernard O'Donoghue -- Homecoming / Desmond O'Grady -- The Butchers. Wounds / Michael Longley -- SHE PUSHED HER SECRET OUT -- From: The Bower / Vona Groarke -- The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speak / Paula Meehan --^
10. If I Could Give You Now. Adam and Eve on a Winter Afternoon. For the First Time in Months, She feels Her Feet. Breaking Ice. How She Had her Nervous Breakdown. Touring the Manor Houses. Baked in Chocolate. Summer Night Heat / Carmelita McGrath.
11. Peirsifine/Persephone Suffering from SAD. An Snag Breac/Ten Ways of Looking at a Magpie / Nuala Ni Dhomhnail -- River of January. Slieve Gallion. Hearing the Weather Fall / Medbh McGuckian -- Gábhar Thobac/Tobacco Shortage Séan Ó Duinnlé -- Bean an Fhir Rua/The Red-Haired Man Reproaches His Wife Who Has Left Him / File Gan Ainm -- Taisigh Agad Féin Do Phóg/Keep to Yourself Your Kisses / File Gan Ainm -- The Second Voyage / Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin -- THE COST OF A GOOD CANOE -- The Cost of a Good Canoe. Gram Glover's Dream. Shanadithit. Kelly at Graveside. The Pigeon on the Gate. Living Alone. The Dandelion Killers. The Pink, White, and Green. St. Leonard's Revisited / Al Pittman -- The Fish/La Pêche / Michel Savard -- The Second Coming / Kyran Pittman -- Snipers in Derelict Houses / Alan Garvey -- THAT YOU MIGHT REACH OUT -- Incantata / Paul Muldoon -- Eary Christian Ireland Wedding Cry / Paul Durean -- Apoqnmuinen/Thank You Great Spirit / Morley Loon & Donna Augustine (Thunderbird Turtle Woman) -- Appendices -- Notes on Contributors (Newfoundland & Labrador) -- Acknowledgements (Newfoundland & Labrador) -- Notes on the Text (Newfoundland & Labrador) -- Notes on Contributors (Ireland) -- Acknowledgements (Ireland) -- Notes on the Ballads and Songs of Ireland -- Index of Poets -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines.

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1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Co-published by Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Waterford Institute of Technology.

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