Patrick Kavanagh
“A beacon of clarity and conciseness by which so many of the rest of us will continue to steer.”
– Paul Muldoon
Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in October 1904. His poetry collections include Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale (1947), and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling and Other Poems (1960). He also wrote the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and an early autobiography, The Green Fool (1938). He died in Dublin in November 1967.
Author portrait: “Patrick Kavanagh, Dublin 1966” © Estate of Evelyn Hofer
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