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Ennis & Music<\/h1>\n

John Ennis\u2019s poetry shows a fascination with music, musicians and composers of music:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOrpheus\u201d:<\/b> a 48-page poem is a Listowel first prize-winner and \u201cthe most amazing long poem any Irish poet has written since Kavanagh\u2019s The Great Hunger<\/i>\u201d (Robert Hogan, Dictionary of Irish Literature<\/i>).\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cMonumental\u201d, David Marcus, New Irish Writing<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cListening to Mahler\u2019s Resurrection<\/i>\u201d,<\/b> a poem written on the death of Ennis\u2019s father: its five movements, with sub-sections, reflect the structure of the original symphony.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFair City\u201d \/ \u201cPale Venus\u201d <\/b>long award-winning poem based on Ireland\u2019s most famous ballad, \u201cMolly Malone\u201d: \u201cthis work with its bold rhymes, half-rhymes and marvellously controlled consonantal music is a tour de force<\/i>\u201d, Terence Brown TCD.<\/span><\/p>\n

Poems written also on classical composers such as O\u2019Carolan<\/b>, Tchaikovsky<\/b>,\u00a0 <\/span>G\u00f3recki<\/b>, Messiaen<\/b> and Shostakovich, <\/b>as well as in response to popular performers such as Seamus Ennis<\/b>, – the author\u2019s own great-granduncles were uilleann pipers -, the many forgotten pre-Famine performers who played the m\u00f3in\u00edn<\/i> in the home place, locals like Agnes McKeown<\/b> and Pat Faulkner<\/b> who played the all night welcome home post-wedding session at his uncle\u2019s up the road, family out of Bruce Chatwin\u2019s Songlines<\/i>, a female teenager who sang Padraic Column\u2019s \u201cShe Moved Through the Fair\u201d in a noisy bar in Mullingar, Cui Jian<\/b>, John Denver<\/b>, Joe Dolan, S\u00ecgur R\u00f3s, Sulic and Hauser,Pussy Riot, Cree Drummers, Ashley Tubridy, Dalton Rapattoni, Owen Mac\u00a0<\/strong><\/b>and Jim Morrisson<\/strong>:<\/b>\u00a0\u201cDevotees Gathering round Jim Morrisson\u2019s Grave\u201d is reprinted in The Harvard Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry<\/i><\/b> 2010…<\/span><\/p>\n

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