Kinsella, Thomas

Kinsella, Thomas

▪ Irish poet
born May 4, 1928, Dublin, Ire.

      Irish poet whose sensitive lyrics deal with primal aspects of the human experience, often in a specifically Irish context.

      Kinsella acquired a series of grants and scholarships that allowed him to attend University College in Dublin, where he studied physics and chemistry before receiving a degree in public administration. He began serving in the Irish civil service in 1946, and in the early 1950s he met Liam Miller, the founder of the Doleman Press, which published much of Kinsella's poetry beginning in 1952. Among these publications were Poems (1956), Kinsella's first volume of collected work; Another September (1958; rev. ed. 1962), which contains poems that explore the imposition of existential order through various forms, be they natural or products of the poet's imagination; and Downstream (1962), a collection focusing on war and political and social disruption in modern Ireland.

      In 1965 he left the Irish civil service and took a position as a writer in residence at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1965–70). During this time he published Nightwalker, and Other Poems (1967), a sombre collection ruminating on Ireland's past and turbulent present. His translation of the ancient Gaelic saga The Cattle Raid of Cooley (Cattle Raid of Cooley, The) (Táin bó Cuailnge) was published in 1969, and the following year he began teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia. New Poems 1956–73 (1973) and One, and Other Poems (1979) skillfully extend the themes of love, death, and rejuvenation.

      Kinsella founded his own publishing company, the Peppercanister Press, in Dublin in 1972, which allowed him to publish pamphlets and individual poems in limited editions without relying on submissions to journals or magazines. Kinsella's first poem to be published through his press was Butcher's Dozen (1972; rev. ed. 1992), about Bloody Sunday, in which 13 demonstrators were killed by British troops in Londonderry (Derry), N.Ire., and the ensuing tribunal. Blood & Family (1988) combines four short collections of prose and verse originally published individually through Peppercanister, and Godhead (1999) explores the Trinity in the light of contemporary society. Later works published through Peppercanister include Marginal Economy (2006), Man of War (2007), and Belief and Unbelief (2007). Numerous collections of Kinsella's poems have been released, including Collected Poems, 1956–2001 (2001) and Selected Poems (2007).

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