Thomas Kinsella Poems from City Centre
Pepper Canister/Dedalus Press, Dublin, 1990. First edition. Paperback, fine copy. 23,1 x 15,2 cm. Pp. 24.
The copy is inscribed by the author, to Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic:’’For Ivan Lalic / (…) / Thomas Kinsella’’.
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Thomas Kinsella (born in Dublin in 1928) is an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher. Abandoning a Science Scholarship at UCD he entered the Civil Service in 1946 where he was Assistant Principal Officer in the Dept of Finance. He has taught in the United States and established and administered the Irish Tradition study program in Dublin, retiring in 1992. He was a director of the Dolmen Press and Cuala Press, Dublin, and in 1972 established the Peppercanister Press whose occasional publications now appear under the Dedalus imprint. His Collected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2001. Kinsella has produced outstanding translations of The Táin and Poems of the Dispossessed, among other titles, and in 1986 edited the New Oxford Book of Irish Verse. In May 2007, he received the Honorary Freedom of the City of Dublin. In his poetry is noticeably subtlety with which it forms the verses. In a subtle but distinct way, he emphasizes the importance of the primary aspects of human experience.
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Ivan V. Lalic (1931 – 1996) was one of the most significant Serbian poets writing after World War II with a reputation as one of the finest European poets of his time. Also one of the leading poets of contemporary neo symbolism poetry in Serbia. He had also been writing essays and literary critics and versifying English and French poetry into the Serbian language. Lalic edited a few anthologies of poetry. He was sincerely appreciated among colleague poets of his time all over the world as it can be seen in many inscriptions written to him on books he received as a sign of respect and appreciation.
