– for Françoise Connolly The time will come, perhaps, (But death will come first) When we may be able to visit The dead and where they lived When we first knew them, And then, though they will not Be able to see us, we shall Look at those faces we Loved once with better thanks [...]
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New and Renewed Poems 1967-2004 Dublin, New Island Books 2004 ISBN 1904301568 PRICE: €9.99 New and Renewed can be ordered from New Island Books. Such exceptional talent – Samuel Beckett NEW AND RENEWED Poems 1967-2004 Review by Philip Casey The Irish Independent 23 Oct 2004 Brian Lynch’s poetry and its rhythms have beguiled me since [...]
PITY FOR THE WICKED Brian Lynch Published 9 May 2005 The Duras Press ISBN 1-873748-16-7 PRICE: €15 Pity for the Wicked can be ordered from The Duras Press. What the critics said “Brian Lynch’s extraordinary testament is like a shattering alarm in the middle of the night.” – Gerald Dawe, The Irish Times. Full Review [...]
PLAYTIME Dublin, RHA Gallagher Gallery and New Island Books 1997 Cover Painting by Gene Lambert This book has a troubled history. Gene Lambert, who had heard me read from ‘Pity for the Wicked’ at the Dun Laoghaire poetry festival, suggested including in the book the section referring to the murder of Margaret Wright. I agreed [...]
Voices from the Nettleway by Brian Lynch Dublin, Raven Arts Press 1989 cover painting by Rosaleen Davy designed by Susanne Linde Out of print
EASTER SNOW Bremen, die horen and Galway, Salmon Press, 1992 Poems by Brian Lynch with photographs by Peter Jankowsky. Translated into German as Oster Schnee –Ein Iland vor Irland. Another book with a less than happy publishing history. As it was being prepared for printing, Jessie Lendennie’s Salmon Press was in grave financial difficulties and [...]
PAUL CELAN : 65 POEMS Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1985 translations from the German by Brian Lynch with Peter Jankowsky This book sold out rapidly – there was a great interest then (and there is still) in Celan’s work. The publishers were grudging about permissions, insisted the edition should be confined to Ireland, and as [...]
BEDS OF DOWN by Brian Lynch Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1983 Cover design by Leo Duffy from an illustration in the Poetical Works of William Cowper by Thomas Secombe The title comes from a famous passage in William Cowper’s great long poem The Task, which begins: ‘And now with nerves new-braced and spirits cheered/ We [...]
Perpetual Star by Brian Lynch Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1981 cover image by Rosaleen Davy. Back cover photo by Roy Esmonde incorporating a painting by Rosaleen Davy Some reviews Laurels should be placed in a champagne mood on Lynch’s brow for one very great and clear reason. Our culture, notoriously cold in sensual knowledge, has [...]
Outside the Pheasantry by Brian Lynch Gorey Art Centre 1974 cover image by Paul Funge Published by The Funge Art Centre, later The Gorey Art Centre, as part of international Gorey Arts Festival in Co Wexford, which ran from 1970 to 1983. Out of print.