Crooked love: Gra fiar

Louis de Paor is an Irish-language poet who was a key figure in the Irish language poetry renaissance of the 1980s and 90s. His dual-language selection, The Brindled Cat and the Nightingales Tongue, was published in 2014 and is mainly drawn from two other collections. It shows a paring back of language and a greater flexibility of form, as well as a preoccupation with the passage of time and its implications for familial and sexual love. His narrative skill and inventiveness come together in the sequence Lá dá raibh, which follows a day in the life of an imaginary village in the west of Ireland.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 25 February 2022
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Louis de Paor is a prominent Irish-language poet who played a significant role in the resurgence of Irish-language poetry during the 1980s and 90s. His bilingual collection, titled "The Brindled Cat and the Nightingales Tongue," was published in 2014, following his previous selected poems, "Rogha Dánta" (2012), which was acclaimed as one of the top ten collections of Irish poetry since the turn of the millennium. This latest dual-language selection primarily draws from two other collections, "Cúpla Siamach an Ama/The Siamese Twins of Time" and "Grá fiar/Crooked Love," with translations by Louis de Paor alongside Kevin Anderson and Biddy Jenkinson. It showcases a reduction in language and a greater flexibility of form in his poetry, as well as a preoccupation with the passage of time and its implications for familial and sexual love. Louis de Paor's narrative skill and inventiveness are evident in the sequence "Lá dá raibh/One Day," which follows a day in the life of an imaginary village in the west of Ireland where the living and the dead, the real and the unreal, collide. This narrative was adapted for a dual-language radio feature with music by Dana Lyn, which was broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM and Raidió na Gaeltachta in 2021.

Weight: 324g
Dimension: 156 x 233 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781780375946
Edition number: Bilingual 'facing page' ed