Selected Poems

Name: Selected Poems
Author: Michael Hartnett

by Michael Hartnett

Selected poems demonstrating Hartnett's range from Irish-language work to English lyric poetry

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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
A Farewell to EnglishPoetry in Irish language rejecting English literary tradition and asserting Irish cultural identity
Inchicore HaikuPoetry collection applying Japanese haiku form to Dublin working-class neighborhood observations
Collected PoemsComprehensive collection spanning English and Irish-language work with political and cultural focus