Terry McDonagh
Posted on May 14, 2006 | Category: Writers
A Song for Joanna is so successfully lodged in the particularities of Australia – its vibrancy, variety, expanse of sky and land, its mixed cultures and Aboriginal origins – that, returning from a trip to Ireland and filled with longing for it, I fell back in love with my own country. And through it all, the blue-green talisman of love.
Robyn Rowland, Australian poet
As a suite of poems, A Song for Joanna offers many pleasures; it is in part a series of cinematic skills, an aide-de-memoir, a dialogue between two worlds and a series of letters home, the vivid impressions of a painterly intelligence, whose keen powers of observation trace the author’s tenure as writer in and residence in Australia.
Homer Rieth, Australian poet
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A World Without Stone
Cover art: Silhouette (Scherenschnitt) by Reinhold Stier, Hamburg
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genre :: Poetry
publisher :: BLAUPAUSE
place & year :: Hamburg, 1998
ISBN :: 3 933498 01 5
translations :: selected poems were translated into and published in Indonesian as Tiada Tempat di Rawa/No Places in The Marshes (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Indonesiatera, 2004)
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A Song for Joanna
Layout and cover illustration (based on Melbourne street map): Olaf Hille
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format :: PDF (417k) :: Open Office 2 (229k) :: MS Word (267k)
genre :: Poetry
publisher :: BLAUPAUSE
place & year :: Hamburg, 2003
ISBN :: 3 933498 10 4
translations :: selected poems were translated into and published in Indonesian as Tiada Tempat di Rawa/No Places in The Marshes (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Indonesiatera, 2004)
translation queries :: contact author
print-on-demand :: yes
Contact :: ILR
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Biographical Note
Terry McDonagh was born in Cill Aodáin, Kiltimagh, Co Mayo in 1946. His plays include The Dark Side of a Dream; Anything for a Fiver; I wanted to bring you
flowers (translated as Ich kann das alles erklären); Eternity Under Lucifer the First; and Children of the Whip.
His first collection of poems, The Road Out, was published in Hamburg in 1993 by Olaf Hille Verlag. His subsequent collections include At Home In My Shoes (Celtic Corner Verlag, Hamburg, 1997); A World Without Stone/New and Selected Poems (Hamburg, Blaupause-Verlag, 1998); A Song for Joanna, Hamburg-Melbourne A Journal in Verse (Hamburg, Blaupause Books, 2003). I’m On A Train – Twelve Strange Songs are based on twelve poems from The Road Out and have been put to music for voice and string quartet by Eberhart Reichel. Elbe Letters Go West/Briefe von der Elbe was published by Blaupause in 1999. He has also published a novel for children, One Summer in Ireland (Stuttgart, Ernst Klett Verlag, 2002); and a collection of poems for children, Boxes (Hamburg, Blaupause Books, 2006).
An English-German selection of his poems, Kiltimagh (Hamburg, Blaupause, 2001) was grant-aided by the
Irish Literature Exchange. His selected poems were translated into and published in Indonesian as Tiada Tempat di Rawa/No Places in The Marshes (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Indonesiatera, 2004).
He lived in Hamburg from 1980 to 2005, but now divides his time between Ireland and Germany.
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