Glimpses - Softcover

1944
1945
About Roundabout
Above And Below
Above The House
According To Plan
Across
Advancing
Adventurer
Advice
Aesthetic
Again
Again
All Day Long
All Her Summers
All That Time
All That's Left
Almost
Almost Nothing
Always
Ambition
Among Stones
Analysts
And Now
And Testament
Angel
Another Art
Another Choice
Another Question
As Suggested
As You Will
Ask
At Ease
At Home
At Moments
At The Gate
Ave
Bad
Bad Rain
Banishment
Bastard
Battered
Beans
Bearing Withness
Because Of
Before
The Beggar Curses His Mocker
Being There
Bell
Best
Best
The Best Worker
Beyond His Reach
Birth
Birth
Birth
Bitchfight
Black Purse
Blame
Bleeding
Blessing
Breaking The Wall
Breath
Breeding
Bright
Builder
But -
Butchers
Buttons
By The Fountain
Cain
Cartel
Certain Days
Challenges
The Change
Change
Changing Style
Chewing
Choice
Cleaners
Climber
Clockwise
Closed Eyes
Clothes
Cocky And Weeshy
Cold
The Coldest Place
The Colour
Colours
Coming Out
Company
Composition
Concluding The Revelation
Conference
Consciousness
Conversation
Corner
Corner Of Talkers
Cover
Crash
Crawler
Cultivation
Daisies
Dancing Still
Day's End
Deep Night
Demons
Devotion
Different
A Different Game
A Different Way
Disadvantage
Drama
Duel
Earth And Sea
Easier
Education
End Of The Lane
Epic
Even More
Ever, Never
Every Step
Every Trace
Evolution
Exile
Expert
Expert
Explorer
Facing The Storm
Fallout
Family Matter
Father To Son
The Fault
Fellowship
First Day
A First Glimpse
First Times
Fish
Flick
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
Fool
For What?
Forgiveness
Free
Free
Fresh
Fridge
Friends
Friends
From A Galway Woman
From Now On
Full Of It
Fun
Funny
Gail Shannon's Prayer
Gambler
Game
Gang
Garden
Getting To Know
Gift Of
Gifts
Giftwrapped
Giggle
Goddess
Good Luck
Gratitude
Greetings
Grunt
Guards
Gumming
Half-afraid
Hands
Harvester
He Is
He Is
He Taps His Belly And
Head Down
Headlines
Heart
Heart And Feathers
Heartbeat
Heartening
Help
Here I Go
Hero
His Bed
His Own Songs
History
Hole
Home
Homo Ludens
The Hunt
I Asked
I Remember, I Remember
I See You
I Stand
If I Lie
If I Must
If I Were To Utter
If You Must
In A Moment
In Darkness I See Them
In The Know
Inches
Inexplicable
Inflation
Informing The Demons
Inside Out
Investment
Invitation
Is The Night A Slave?
Itch
Jobs
The Joy
Just Another Day
Killings
Knowing Not Knowing
Lads
Lady Senator
Late
Leafy Fall
Learning
Learning
Learning To Serve
Leaving Cert
Like Days
Lines
Lines
Literacy
Living With Limits
Lizzy
Long Enough
Love Later
Mabel Street Commandments
A Mad Attack
Maggie And Paul
Magic
Making A Living
Making Nothing Happen
A Man
Manbeast
Many Years
Margin
A Matter Of Technique
May Way
Meaning
Meeting-point
Melting
Menu
Merger
Midnight
Mindbite
Miracle
Miracles
Miss
Missed
Mitching
Mocker
The Moment
The Moment
More Gifts
More Power
The Morning's Mail
Morning, Night
Most Of All
Mouth
Moving On
Muddy Water
The Muse
Nakedness
Near
Near A Building
Nearly
Necessity
Neck
Never
Never
Never Again
Never Again
Never Knew Why
Never Stops
New
New Wings
Nightflowers
Nightnight
Ninety-six
No Answers
No Doubt
No Equal
No Longer A Name
No Meddling
No Mercy
No Return
No Softie
No Time
The Nobody Mind
Not Too Much
Now
Now
Obedience
October Dark
Odyssey
Of Geography
Of Mouth And Eyes
Of Non-existence
Of Useless Men
Old Irish
An Old Novelist's Change Of Style
Old Sam
Old Shagger
On
On The Road
On The Way
On Trial
One And Only
One And Only
One Bite
One Dark Cottage
One Day
One Thing Only
The Ones
Only One
Opening
Order Of Merit
The Other Way
Otherwise
Out There
Outside The Church
Page One
A Pair O' Them
Paradise Lost
Parnassus
Parting
Passing Time
Path
Pebbles
Perfection
Perspective
Picking His Way
A Picture
Pilgrims
Pity
The Place
Planets
Planners
Playing Around
Playtime
Pleasure
Pleasure
Pollen
Poor Man Wondering
Post-futurism
Practice
Preference
Preference
Presences
Present
Principles
Procession
Progress
Promise
Proximity
Question Mark
Quick
A Quick Visit
A Quiet Mention
The Radford Scale
A Radford Slant On Ageing
Range
Reader
Reading
Realisation
Rebirth
Recognition
Red Candle
Reflection
Relatively Placid
Reminder
Repeater
Reply
Resonance
Response
Revelation
A Rhythm
Right
Rivals
Roof
Runny
Safeguard
The Same
Sand
Say
Scales
Scarcity
School
Scratch
Scratchword
Scuttlers
The Search
Searcher
Seasong
Seat
September
Servants
The Shannon Way
Shaper
She
She Says
Shift
Shock Sexchange
Short Story
Shortly Before
Sigh
Signs Of Signs
Silences
Simple
Slave
Sleeping And Working
Slipping On His Coat, He Said
Small
So Far
So Many Things
So Old
Soft Spot
Some
Somewhat Disturbed
The Song
Special
Spoilt
Sprinklers
Squatter
Still To Be Done
Stolen Money
Story
Strange Feast
Street-talkers
Strides
Style
Styles
The Subject
Sunday Morning
Supervisor
Suppose
Surrender
Survivors
Swift
Tablets
A Tall Wall
Tap
Temple
The Test
That Evening
That Happy Moment
Theft
Therefore
Therefore I Am Not
A Third Wife's Observation
This Fun
Three Dreams
Three Things
Tickle
A Time
Time No Time
To A Young Writer
To An Old Writer
To Ladies
Together
Tommy Edwards
Touch
Traffic Lights
Tramplers
Transformation
Transformation
Transformation
Trees
Tricks
Triumph
Trouble
True And False
True To Birth
The Truth
Turn On
Twist And Turn
Two
Unbungling
Up From
Up From The Earth
Vanity
Vision
Vow
Waking Up
Wall
Wanting
Warning
Watch
A Way
Welcome
What He Wanted
What It Takes
What's That You Said?
When He Looked
When I Hear It
When It Hits
Where It's At
Whispers
Whistler
Wife And Children
Witness
The Worst Sin
A Wounded Place
Wrestler
Wrong And Right
Wrong Words
You Could Tell
Your Way
Your Way
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

The epigram, long fallen into disuse, may be just the poetic form for the sound-bite society, and Kennelly's the man for the form. In this collection of hundreds of generally 4- but sometimes as ponderous as 10- or 12-line poems, some are as delicate as haiku, others as broad-brushing as a bad joke. One--"Shy morning light, a snail's track / on the kitchen floor / is silver stolen from the bank of night"--captures a fragile, momentary beauty. Another, a brief dialogue, is considerably saucier: "'They're pourin' plaudits on his head.' / 'Jaysus, he must be dead!'" Some pack entire dramas into a few lines, such as "A gentle voice is music on the phone: / 'I'm coming along the quays in the rain.'" Occasionally coarse, often surprisingly sweet, these are poems to be picked up and read a few at a time, for the jolt of energy each contains. Ray Olson
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