THE NATIONAL POETRY FOUNDATION

PATRICK KAVANAGH: MAN AND POET

Peter Kavanagh, Editor

This substantial volume gives the Irish poet and novelist a hitherto unexampled dimension, authority, and authenticity. Besides the assessments of such critics as Vivienne Abbott, Robert Creeley, Augustine Martin, and Francis Boylan, the Patrick Kavanagh: Man and Poet volume includes the personal memories and poignant and hilarious anecdotes of others who early or late crossed his path either briefly or for longer periods of time but always with the sense of having met a human being more alive than most. Patrick Kavanagh: Man and Poet is particularly valuable for pieces by Patrick Kavanagh himself which make up a kind of running autobiography and for an "Anthology" of poems which show his range of style and subject.

1986 499 pages

Paper $25.00 (0-915032-64-3)

"In stubble fields the ghosts of corn are

The important spirits the imagination heeds.

Nothing dies; there are no empty

Spaces in the cleanest-reaped fields."

("On Looking into E. V. Rieu's Homer")

THE STORY OF THE ABBEY THEATRE
Peter Kavanaugh

First published in 1950 by Devin-Adair, now re-published in facsimile form by NPF, this lively and scholarly history succeeds brilliantly in carrying out Peter Kavanagh's general mission of vindicating "the ideals of the original founders of the Abbey Theatre, to tell of their struggles and successes and their perpetual battle against degrading influences."

The volume includes illustrations and appendices, one of which contains a complete listing (to 1949) of plays and playwrights of Abbey Theatre.

1984 Facsimile Reprint 243 pages

Cloth $25.00 ( 0-91532-29-5)

Paper $12.95 ( 0-91532-30-9)

SACRED KEEPER: A BIOGRAPHY OF PATRICK KAVANAGH
Peter Kavanagh

The voice of Kavanagh's biographer in Sacred Keeper is that of his younger brother Peter, dedicated to his role as protector, elucidator, and champion of a life whose privilege was art. In Patrick Kavanagh's words, "But we survived. I say! Do you hear me. We survived to laugh another day."

1984 Facsimile Reprint 403 pages

Cloth $25.00 ( 0-91532-31-7)

Paper $15.95 ( 0-91532-32-5)