BOOK LAUNCH on Tuesday 29th March @ 7 pm. POETRY IRELAND in association with Lagan Press, Belfast present "Breakfast with Sylvia" by Kevin Kiely introduced by Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin of TCD at Poetry Ireland, 120 St. Stephen¹s Green, Dublin 2 REFRESHMENTS CV follows: > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > Kevin Kiely, born in Northern Ireland has lived, worked and studied in > England, Europe and the US, is an honorary fellow-in-writing from the > University of Iowa, has received six arts council bursary awards in > literature, and is a critic and editor. > Published work includes 'Plainchant for a Sundering' (poem-sequence) Lapwing > Press, Belfast 2001; 'Children of No Importance' (play) broadcast by RTÉ >Radio > in 2000 for Wilde centenary; 'Multiple Indiscretions' (play) broadcast by RTÉ > Radio in 1997; 'Mere Mortals', Poolbeg, Dublin 1989; 'Quintesse', St Martin¹s > Press, New York 1985. > Forthcoming titles: 'Francis Stuart‹Outcast' (critical biography), 'Breakfast > with Sylvia' (poems), 'Putting a saddle on El Dorado' (novel). > > ____________________________________________________________________________ Comments on 'Breakfast with Sylvia' > "Lyrical, original, faithful to the moment and its joys but with an undertone > of sometimes rueful experience‹these are the poems of a man who has come > through." Anthony Cronin > > > > "Kevin Kiely's writing shows the world alive, in a bracing air, in a sharp > light, where a subject is probed and rattled by an Atlantic energy. These > poems are full of edgily real things, people and places caught in a sudden > urgent perspective that shakes the reader with their nearness. A poem such as > ŒOn a deserted beach with a Sony Walkman¹’ succeeds in doing this > simultaneously with the material world and with emotions and ideas about art. > Poems on erotic themes are incandescent and stormy with an intellectual bite > to them. There is nothing glum or staid here and much that is invigorating to > read." Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin > > > > > "There¹s an intriguing mixture of themes and tones in Kevin Kiely¹s new > collection. The mythic mingles with the realistic, the spiritual touches the > material world, the robust sexuality of many of the poems lies side by side > with moments of delicate reticence. There¹s an energetic awareness of, and > participation in, the joy of being; and perhaps it is this very joy that helps > to account for the deeply moving elegy in memory of Lar Cassidy, a man who > devoted his life to the arts. These poems are open and passionate, adventurous > and daring. Taken together, they create a world of their own. Readers will > enjoy exploring this world so convincingly shaped by Kevin Kiely." Brendan > Kennelly > From: [log in to unmask] > Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:44:14 -0400 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: genuinely academic inquiry? > > Dear all, > Pound was not a pacifist. He adopted the Douglasite point of view that wars > are caused by the business interests of the armaments industries (De Wendel, > Schneider Creusot, Vickers, Krupp) allied with banking institutions (De Wendel > for instance was both in the armaments business and director in the Banque de > France; moreover he was a depute in the French parliament and owned a few > newspapers). > If one looks for such references to guns manufacturers and salesmen one finds > them all over the place in the first two cycles of Cantos. > Pound was of opinion that pacifism is splendidly used by the liberal > establishment to obscure the real causes of war. Hence his violent enmity > against the Carnegie Peace Foundation who in his opinion had done nothing to > explain the causes of war or develop a policy to prevent further wars. > If one needs any further proof that EP was not a pacifist, well, by now it is > a well-established fact that he approved of the war in Abyssinia; this set him > apart from all his Social Credit friends, who thought that "all wars are > bankers' wars" > Roxana Preda >