Poetry Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Echoing Years, The
An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Translation from Canada and Ireland
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2007
- Category
- Anthologies (multiple authors), English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780954028169
- Publish Date
- Nov 2007
- List Price
- $50.00
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Description
The Echoing Years completes a trilogy of anthologies combining the poetry of Ireland and Newfoundland and Labrador. The Backyards of Heaven (2003) and However Blow the Winds (2004) have sold out. This new volume expands its coverage to poetry from across Canada, including French-Canadian (partly in translation) and Aboriginal work, published since 1980. It contains 172 poets, (87 Canadian, 85 Irish), and includes translations/versions of Dante, Virgil, and eastern European poets.
"The Echoing Years is the third of these wonderful collaborative anthologies from Newfoundland-Labrador and Ireland. “Between them these volumes amount to an endlessly compelling cabinet of poetry." -- Bernard O'Donoghue, Oxford
About the authors
The Editors: John Ennis, Head of the School of Humanities at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, chairs their Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies. He has co-edited all three anthologies. Randall Maggs teaches English at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook. In 2008 Brick Books will publish his Night Work: the Sawchuk Poems. Stephanie McKenzie teaches English at Northern Michigan University, and is the founder of Scop Productions Inc., a west coast Newfoundland publishing and production house.
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Randall Maggs is the author of the poetry collection Timely Departures (Breakwater Books, 1994), and co-editor of two anthologies pairing Newfoundland and Canadian poems with those of Ireland. He is one of the organizers and the former artistic director of Newfoundland's March Hare, the largest literary festival in Atlantic Canada. He is a former professor of literature at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University. Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, his second poetry collection (Brick Books, 2008), was the winner of the 2008 Winterset Award, the 2009 E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize, and the 2010 Kobzar Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award, longlisted for the Relit Award and named a Globe 100 book in 2008. He lives in Steady Brook, near Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
John Ennis, Head of the School of Humanities at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, chairs their Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, is the author of thirteen collections of poetry.