Voices at the World's Edge: Irish Poets on Skellig Michael

Brief Description: For some 700 years after its foundation in the 6th century, the monastery on Skellig Michael off the Kerry coast was home to a vibrant monastic community. For this anthology, Paddy Bushe invited some of Ireland's best-known poets to spend the night among the bee-hive huts, puffins and gannets, and to write of their experience. Marc Notes: Some text in Irish.; Distributed by Syracuse University Press.; Available in cloth. Table of Contents: Foreword / Marie Heaney -- Editor's Introduction -- A fine soft morning on Sceilig Bay, trans / Derek Mahon -- Skellig Birds / Paddy Bushe -- Entrance -- Climbing the Eye of the Needle, South Peak -- Illuminated Manuscript -- Eadarluid Oiche Gaoithe -- Interval on a Windy Night -- Fardoras -- Lintel -- Oileanu -- Islanding -- Stormbound -- The Dragons and Archangels of Skellig Michael -- Night on Skellig Michael / John F. Deane -- Skellig -- Sailing to the Edge / Theo Dorgan -- A High Tradition / Kerry Hardie -- Reading Heinrich Boll's The Clown on a bus bound for Skellig Michael -- Skellig Michael -- Sky Station -- Strange Company -- Bun na Faille / Biddy Jenkinson -- Smal -- Clochan -- Sui Fhionan -- Solas -- An Manach agus an Chailleach Nite eadaigh -- Briongloid Sceilge -- Limisteir -- The Last Holy Woman of Sceilg -- An Cat Mara -- Gannets / Sean Lysaght -- Storm Petrels -- Vertigo / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain -- Diseart na Sceilge / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill -- Skellig Hermitage -- eanlaith na Sceilge -- Birds of Skellig -- Annalacha Diseart na Sceilge -- The Annals of the Skellig Hermitage -- Out in the Weather / Bernard O'donoghue -- Weather -- The Skellig Listeners -- Sa Mhainistir / Cathal o Searcaigh -- In the Monastery -- Ceathruinti Thuathal Mac Liag -- Tuathal Mac Liag's Quatrains -- Tuathal ag Cuimhneamh ar Chaomhan -- Tuathal Daydreams Caomhan -- Tuathal ag Mealladh Chaomhain -- Tuathal Seduces Caomhan -- Paidir Thuathail -- Tuathal's Prayer -- Timesis / Macdara Woods -- In the Light of Whipple's Moon -- At the Butler Arms / Derek Mahon -- Notes on Contributors.

Contributor Bio:  Heaney, Marie Marie Heaney was born in County Tyrone. She trained as a teacher in Belfast and began her career in schools in Northern Ireland. Married with three children, she now lives in Dublin where she works as a freelance writer, contributing to newspapers and to programmes on both RTE and BBC.