Reviews for Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-45

The average rating for Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-45 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-05-30 00:00:00 Don Dillon Earth Voices Whispering Anthology is edited by Gerald Dawe. The editor Gerald is Belfast born and a literary prize winner and poet. He has no less than 7 collections in print. The book is published by Blackstaff Press and its ISBN is 0856408212. This is the first Irish war anthology to cover 5 wars from both points of view for over a 30 year period. It is simply a brilliant collection which fulfills a cultural need. There are over 250 poems from old poets and new. Many of my favourite poets have poems here: WB Yeats, Padraic Pearse, Francis Ledwidge, Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Kinsella, Brendan Keneally, Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan. These poems have pathos, beauty and illumination and help us understand the period 1914-45. It should be essential reading for all historians and poets. This collection gives a poetic and literary view of Ireland's role in the wars of the period. Reviewed by Annette Dunlea author of Always and Forever and The Honey Trap.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-10 00:00:00 David Schmidt If a reader didn't hear a little O'Hara in Plummet, she'd be deaf; if he didn't see beyond that, he'd be blind. Nealon succeeds at updating O'Hara's barbed glee in the Now with new supertitles for warlorn "ipodistes," which is all of us pretty much now, wanting "Ecstasy instead of classicism" but with enough grad school to know what those options involve, and to chuckle a bit at the oldfangled either/ors: "Hold fast to your integrity until it becomes Art Song and you have no friends."