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Collected Poems
by Peter Leonard
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12th September, 2008
ISBN: 978-1-906018-55-9
Price: €15
Taken as a whole, this collection marks the addition of a significant new voice to the canon of Irish verse written in the twentieth century.
Never previously published, Peter Leonard’s Collected Poems were written over the course of a long life and reflect the broad range of his intellectual interests. The reader will encounter verse which is as thematically varied and stimulating as it is formally elegant and accomplished.The publication of this book constitutes an important literary event: poems like ‘Giacometti’, ‘The stars in their courses’, ‘Just When’ and many others deserve to be read and cherished, now that they are finally available in print.
From The Realm of the Russian bear
No act of mine may alter
The cycle’s course, or stay:
To pity means to palter;
You watch to learn – and pray.
