James Harpur has had six poetry collections published by Carcanet and Anvil Press, including his latest, The White Silhouette (2018), an Irish Times Book of the Year. Angels and Harvesters (2012), was a PBS Recommendation and shortlisted for the 2013 Irish Times Award. He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of the arts, and lives in West Cork.
About James Harpur
James Harpur has had six poetry collections published by Carcanet and Anvil Press, including his latest, 'The White Silhouette' (2018), an Irish Times Book of the Year. 'Angels and Harvesters' (2012), was a PBS Recommendation and shortlisted for the 2013 Irish Times Award. He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of the arts, and lives in West Cork.
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Articles with James Harpur
Opera
James Harpur has had six poetry collections published by Carcanet and Anvil Press, including his latest, The White Silhouette (2018), an Irish Times Book of the Year. Angels and Harvesters (2012), was a PBS Recommendation and shortlisted for the 2013 Irish Times Award. In his poem, Opera, he celebrates the imagination – “an impromptu school trip back in the day which was as much as an opera as the actual opera we went to see”.
Angels and Harvesters / Set Text: Philoctetes
James Harpur is an interior poet with a fascination for spirituality. Angels and Harvesters is taken from his published collection of the same name, a collection that displays both human tenderness and an otherworldly wonder. Set Text: Philoctetes is a new poem. This is its first publication.