The Great Hunger

Author: Kavanagh, Patrick

Poetry by individual poets

Published on 22 February 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern' series.

Paperback / softback | 64 pages
163 x 116 x 5 | 46g

'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided . . .'By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.

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