The Brindled Cat and the Nightingale's Tongue

by Kevin Anderson, Louis de Paor, Mary O'Donoghue, et al.

Book Overview

Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and was a key figure in the Irish language poetry renaissance of the 1980s and 90s. He has worked closely on English translations of his poetry, with his co-translators fully engaging with the original poem in Irish. Keenly aware of the more destructive aspects of translation, he and his trio of translators, Kevin Anderson, Biddy Jenkinson and Mary O'Donoghue, have eschewed the modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780371098
• ISBN13: 9781780371092
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"