The Great Hunger

The Great Hunger
de Patrick Kavanagh

Penguin Modern: 10
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2018
9780241339343
64 pp.

"I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided . . ."

By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.