Description
Martial is alive and kicking in Brendan Kennelly’s latter-day Dublin versions of the Spanish Roman poet. He is a satirist trying to define generosity, happiness and love, with scurrilous candour and piercing clarity, in brief punchy poems. But no matter how savage his attacks, he is always playful and compassionate. He is a sharp, visionary writer who knows the world about him and is in touch with the world within himself, at once bewildered, attentive and bitingly articulate. Martial Art is a book that packs a punch.
Luck Is the Hook 
Wild Persistence 
A Quarter of an Hour 
Gold from the Stone 
The Other City 
The Unfettered Cube 
A Monkey At the Window 
Surrealist Poetry 
Book of Mercy 
Selected Poetry 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Comic Poems