Product Description
Brendan Kennelly's Book of Judas, a 400-page sequence of poems in twelve parts, became a number one bestselling book in Ireland on publication in 1991 . As well as receiving rapturous reviews, Brendan Kennelly won the Sunday Independent/Irish Life Award for the book and earned the ultimate accolade of 'Kerryman of the Year'.
Not merely lost but irredeemable, Kennelly's bitterly articulate Judas speaks, dreams and murmurs - of past and present, history and myth, good and evil, of men, women and children, and of course money - until we realise that the unspeakable perpetrator of the apparently unthinkable, in penetrating the icy reaches of his own world, becomes a sly, many-voiced critic of ours.
Bloodaxe Books, trade Hardcover ( which was issued at the same time as the paperback) 0- 1991.
No marks internally, light edgewear to covers externally.