Courts of Air and Earth

by Trevor Joyce

Poetry. Shearsman published Trevor Joyce's collected poems, WITH THE FIRST DREAM OF FIRE THEY HUNT THE COLD, to great acclaim in 2001 (and a second edition of the book in 2003), and this volume extracts his remarkable translation of the epic Sweeny Peregrine from that volume and offers it together with a large group of other versions from the Old and Middle Irish, thus offering Anglophone readers a glimpse of some very unusual verse that rarely sees the light of day outside academic volumes, while also transposing it into a form that will seem familiar to readers of Joyce's own work.

Genres: Poetry

92 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

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[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Translations of early Irish poetry, featuring the epic "Poems of Sweeny, Peregrine." The texts range in time from the 12th to the 18th centuries.