This book contains a generous selection of poems responding to life in Ireland, where the author has had a home since 1964. The collection, spanning thirty years of work, includes new poems as well as those drawn from nine previously published volumes, most of them long out of print, including A Close Sky Over Killaspuglonane (Dolmen, 1968) and Learning to Spell Zucchini (Salmon, 1988). Focused primarily in County Clare, the book records the author's encounters with the landscape, animals and people of Ireland in historical, mythical and contemporary settings.
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Knute Skinner is an American-born poet who has had a home in County Clare for thirty-two years and whose work has appeared widely in Ireland, Britain, Australia and America. He has been a professor of English at Western Washington University and for many years served as director of the Signpost Press and editor of the Bellingham Review. He is the author of nine previous collections of poetry, three of them with Salmon Publishing, and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including A Geography of Poets and Irish Poetry Now. He is currently on the editorial staff of New Series - Departures, an annual anthology of literature published in Clare.
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A Poem from 'The Cold Irish Earth: New & Selected Poems of Ireland 1965-1995' by Knute Skinner
A View from Lahinch
The Cliffs of Moher
can be viewed
three miles from here,
of rising rock.
The Atlantic sent them
shock on shock
till from the crags
Hags Head was hewed.
I move my hand
to wind the clock,
which, like my life,
must be renewed.
Copyright Knute Skinner
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