Tarry Flynn

One of the major figures in the modern Irish poetic canon, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) was a post-colonial poet who released Anglo-Irish verse from its prolonged obsession with history, ethnicity and national politics. His poetry, written in an uninhibited vernacular style, focused on the 'common and banal' aspects of contemporary life.A work of artIrish TimesHe did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only storyA semi-autobiographical novel from the author of The Gr