Deeds and Their Days
Peter Fallon’s widely acclaimed translation of The Georgics of Virgil appeared in 2004. A subsequent edition was published by Oxford in its World’s Classics series. Now he turns his hand to a poem by Hesiod (c.700 bce) which was a model for Virgil’s ‘song of the earth’. In his rendition of the work commonly referred to as Works and Days the energy of his sprightly verses propels a version of man’s origins, an ancient almanac, a store of instructions for the best way to live on earth and the drama of the poet’s address to, and condemnation of, his brother, Perses. Peter Fallon’s skills as a translator have never been more clear.
Strong, My Love
At the heart of Strong, My Love, Peter Fallon’s first collection in seven years, is a series of prayers for his daughter and son and for their generation. Though time and its tolls pervade the book (‘When my old friend / falters on a stair / or founders on a word or name . . .’) the author would ‘wake and want to give / the ordinary day / its due’.
(Gallery Books, 2014)
The Company of Horses
In a book of uncommon empathy, the author considers the blessings of the whole green force of nature. These life-affirming lyrics remain attentive to particular, cherished places . . . all the while asserting common ground in the heart’s affections and excitements.
(Gallery Books, 2007)
Ballynahinch Postcards
New poems
(Occasional Press in association with Ballynahinch Castle, Connemara, Summer 2007)
email: patrick@bhinch.iol.ie for futher information or to order.
A new translation by Peter Fallon
revised, with a new ‘Translator’s Note’;
with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Fantham
(Oxford University Press / Oxford World’s Classics, 2006)
Tarry Flynn
A play in three acts based on the novel by Patrick Kavanagh.
‘The trouble with you, Tarry Flynn, is — you don’t know what you want!’
(Gallery Books, 2004)
Poem, handprinted, limited signed edition
(Warwick Press, Easthampton, MA, 2006)
News of the World: Selected Poems
This selection offers his own poems from four books, The Speaking Stones, Winter Work, The News and Weather, and Eye to Eye.
(Wake Forest University Press, NC, 1993)
Eye to Eye
Peter Fallon’s first collection since The News and Weather continues and expands his report from a farming community in the Irish midlands.
(Gallery Books, 1993)
Out of Print Publications
Out of Print Publications
Airs and Angels (Out of Print)
New poems, handprinted, limited signed edition
Foreword by Wendell Berry
(Press on Scroll Road, Carrollton, OH, Summer 2007)
Morning Glory (Out of Print)
New poems, handprinted, limited signed edition
(Warwick Press, Easthampton, MA, 2006)
News of the World: Selected and New Poems (Out of Print)
News of the World presents poems from three out of print collections,
The Speaking Stones, Winter Work and The News and Weather, and from Eye to Eye.
(Gallery Books, 1998)
The Georgics of Virgil (Out of Print)
Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation
with ‘Afterwords’ by Peter Fallon
(Gallery Books, 2004)
Caesarean (Out of Print)
Poems, handprinted, limited signed edition
(Warwick Press, Easthampton, MA, 2006)
The News and Weather (Out of Print)
(Gallery Books, 1987)
Winter Work (Out of Print)
(Gallery Books, 1983)
The Speaking Stones (Out of Print)
With drawings by Tim Engelland
(Gallery Books, 1978)
