Butcher's Dozen

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet is proud to publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's House of Commons apology, and a new author's note.

Author: Thomas Kinsella
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Published: 03/31/2022
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10d
ISBN13: 9781800171657
ISBN10: 180017165X
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General

About the Author
Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. He was educated at University College, Dublin and entered the Irish Civil Service before becoming a full-time writer and teacher in the USA. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry and of essays, and editor of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse.