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News of the World: Selected Poems
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News of the World: Selected Poems Hardback - 1993

by Peter Fallon

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News of the World includes poems from four of Fallon's collections, The Speaking Stones (1978), Winter Work (1983), The News and Weather (1987), and Eye to Eye (1993).

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  • Title News of the World: Selected Poems
  • Author Peter Fallon
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wake Forest University Press, Winston Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1993-10
  • ISBN 9780916390570 / 0916390578
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 5.79 x 0.5 in (23.65 x 14.71 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Ireland, Farm life - Ireland
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93060785
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.914

About the author

Peter Fallon was born in Germany in 1951 and grew up in County Meath. He is an Honours Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where, in 1994, he was Writer Fellow in the English Department. At the age of eighteen he founded The Gallery Press, which is recognized as Ireland's pre-eminent literary publishing house. His collections of poetry include The Speaking Stones (1978), Winter Work (1983), The News and Weather (1987), Eye to Eye (1992), and The Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart (1997). Wake Forest University Press published his selected poems, News of the World, in 1993. An expanded edition, News of the World: Selected and New Poems, was published in Ireland in 1998. His recent publications include a translation of The Georgics of Virgil (2004), and two collections of poems, The Company of Horses (2007) and Strong, My Love (2014). Peter Fallon received the 1993 O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute. He has been Poet in Residence at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and, in the spring of 2000, he was the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University, PA, which conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate. He is a member of Aosdna and lives with his family in Loughcrew in County Meath.

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