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Inchicore Haiku

by Michael Hartnett

Poetry collection applying Japanese haiku form to Dublin working-class neighborhood observations

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About the author

Michael Hartnett
Michael Hartnett

Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish Gaelic and made a famous declaration in 1975 that he would henceforth write only in Irish. A Farewell to English is his most celebrated poem.

More by Michael Hartnett

  • Anatomy of a ClichePoetry examining how language exhausts itself through cliché and creative depletion→
  • Selected PoemsSelected poems demonstrating Hartnett's range from Irish-language work to English lyric poetry→
  • A Farewell to EnglishPoetry in Irish language rejecting English literary tradition and asserting Irish cultural identity→
  • Collected PoemsComprehensive collection spanning English and Irish-language work with political and cultural focus→

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