Kind of Journal

Name: Kind of Journal
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ISBN: 9781857546323

ISBN-10: 1857546326

ISBN-13: 9781857546323

Edition: 2003

Authors: P. J. Kavanagh

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In 1983 the poet P.J. Kavanagh was asked by the Spectator to write a weekly column, for a month. Thirteen years later he was still at it, though now writing longer, monthly pieces. The wide-ranging essays collected here add up to 'A Kind of Journal'.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



The True Undertaking


Remembering the Ram


Here Comes the Bard


Prester John


As Jimmy Durante Said


Asides to Himself


Speaking and Writing


Gaudeamus Igitur


Jeux d'esprit


Tazzie at Last


Before Breakfast


In Search of a Public Drink


The Great Australian Pause


Varieties and Sports


Good Sense on the March


England, our England


The Melodious Warbler


Necessity the Mother


Aphoristic Assistance


The Subjective School


Aloof to the Ludicrous


Saying It How It Is


Shoes Covered for Occasions


Eavesdropping on Language


The Courtesy of Naming


A Touch of the Tassos


The Real MacCaig


Alienation a Way of Life


Sir Victor and Sean


This Demi-Paradise


Fuller's Earth


Roy the Lion and Unicorn George


News of the World


Landscape with No Figures


The Music of What Happens


Oldtimer's Disease


Daring to Trespass


Same Difference?


Midsummer's Day Impatience


Looking About and About Looking


Fairy Tales of New York


Authentic Hero


Gussie Finknottle, Reporting


'Kilvert was here'


Stephens and Staring


'Is this shame eternal? I cried'


Ten Days in Winter


Flints in Gloucestershire


Edward Thomas and Miguel de Unamuno


Watching the Rain at Lord's


Angels and Montaigne


Frank O'Connor and Donegal


'Father Ted'


A Statue in Beaconsfield


W.H. Hudson and Buenos Aires


Grass


A Night in Italy


Yeats and Holy Places


Thomas Merton and Starlings


Buddha in Kilmainham


Pilgrimage


An American Poet


Thinking About Time


Quoting Augustine


Neruda the Parakeet


Remembering Peter Levi


Saul Bellow's Bucket


English Manley Hopkins


Topical Johnson


The Hawk and the Shadow


Wallace Beauties and a Bell


Percy French and Nosmo King


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Surprised by Aberystwyth


Tolstoy, Anna Karenina


Tolstoy and his Diaries


Foot and Mouth


Philip Toynbee and von Hugel


April the Twenty-third


Fragrant Fenelon


Thistles and lignum vitae


Gurney and Sassoon


The Old Curiosity Shop - September 11


Prophecies and Terror


Augustine and the Demonic


Augustine and Billy Collins


Lambs and Celandines


Czeslaw Milosz


Index