The early years of poet P.J. Kavanagh's life made little sense to him until "something extraordinary happened" - his meeting with Sally, the "perfect stranger". This record of the uniqueness of human love provides the poet's tribute of thanks to his muse.

Perfect Stranger

Kavanagh, P.J.

Flamingo

Francis Place, in 1801, hears rumors of an Irishman living with the Indians of North America and decides to journey there to see if it is his father, who disappeared several years before

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Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Random House Childrens Books

The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton

CHESTERTON, G.K.

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger' (1942) and his celebratory later verse, 'To Hell with Common Sense' and 'Come Dance with Kitty Stobling', which show his increasing comic verve and detachment. The first comprehensive selection of Kavanagh's poetry to be published, this volume offers a timely reassessment of a poet unfairly neglected outside Ireland.

Selected poems

Poetry

Chatto&Windus

Nice clean copy, but fore edge has foxing. viii, 354pp, 20 illus.

Voices in Ireland: A Traveller's Literary Companion

John Murray Pubs Ltd

Here, P.J. Kavanagh travels the whole of Ireland, north as well as south, relating writers to places in a country dense with association and deeply interested in locality. The reader is shown many Irelands - those that formed St Patrick, or James Joyce, Yeats or Somerville and Ross, and others.

Travel

Europe

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Collected Poems.: Romance and Adventure in British

Carcanet Press

A memoir detailing the British poet's travels from Butlin's Holiday Camp to Switzerland and Paris, to a battlefield in Korea, to Oxford, Barcelona and Java, and the new meaning his life took on as a result of his meeting Sally

The Perfect Stranger: A Memoir

Graywolf Pr

Drawing on the work of 45 years, starting with his debut collection, One and One, this collection of P. J. Kavanagh poems demonstrates his understanding of how contradictions coexist in nature and in us. Out of that vexed coexistence he makes poetry that, formally poised, packs the punch of revelation. Kavanagh has done so much to revive interest in British nature writing, and has contributed so much to it himself, nowhere more so than in his poetry. Internationally acclaimed Irish poet Derek Mahon provides an illuminating foreword, to set Kavanagh’s work in context.

New Selected Poems

Carcanet Press Ltd.

J.Kavanagh's early years were full of incident and adventure: the comedy, passion and the abrupt tragedy of that life are recounted in what Richard Ingrams described as 'one of the best memoirs I have read -- a brilliant self-portrait by a born writer with a humorous, poetic and genuinely religious outlook on life.' For Michael Frayn The Perfect Stranger is 'a fine memorial to youth and love -- perhaps to the youth and love of all our generation'. From a Butlin holiday camp to Switzerland and then Paris, to a battlefield in Korea, to Oxford and Barcelona, and finally to Java, his life made little sense to him until 'something extraordinary happened': he met 'the perfect stranger' of the title, with its oblique tribute to Louis MacNeice. This tender, funny and unsentimental record of the uniqueness of human love, with its shocking conclusion, is a poet's tribute of thanks.

The Perfect Stranger

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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Perfect Stranger

Rebel for Good

The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton

Selected poems

Voices in Ireland: A Traveller's Literary Companion

Voices in Ireland: A Traveller's Literary Companion

Collected Poems.: Romance and Adventure in British

The Perfect Stranger: A Memoir

New Selected Poems

The Perfect Stranger