Peppercanister Press

Peppercanister Press was a small press in Dublin founded by Thomas Kinsella to publish his own poetry. In later years, the series began to be published by Dedalus Press.

Publications

First series

• Peppercanister 1, Butcher's Dozen (1972)

printed shortly after the Widgery Tribunal

• Peppercanister 2, A Selected Life (1972)

in memoriam Seán Ó Riada

• Peppercanister 3, Vertical Man (1973)

a sequel to Peppercanister 2

• Peppercanister 4, The Good Fight (1973)

noting the anniversary of John F. Kennedy assassination

The first series was collected into the book Fifteen Dead (Dolmen/Oxford, 1979)[1]

Second series

• Peppercanister 5, One (1974)

continuing themes from his book Notes from the Land of the Dead; includes illustrations by Anne Yeats

• Peppercanister 6, A Technical Supplement (1976)

includes details of illustrations from Diderot's Encyclopédie

• Peppercanister 7, Song of the Night and Other Poems (1976)

The second series was collected into the book One and Other Poems (Dolmen/Oxford, 1979)
The first and second series were collected into the book Peppercanister Poems 1972-1978 (Wake Forest University Press, 1979)[1]

Third series

• Peppercanister 8, The Messenger (1985)
• Peppercanister 9, Songs of the Psyche (1985)
• Peppercanister 10, Her Vertical Smile (1985)

These three were published simultaneously.[1]

• Peppercanister 11, Out of Ireland
• Peppercanister 12, St. Catherine's Clock

These two were later collected as Blood and Family (Oxford University Press, 1988)[1]

Later publications

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• Peppercanister 13,
• Peppercanister 14,
• Peppercanister 15,
• Peppercanister 16, "Madonna" and Other Poems (1995)
• Peppercanister 17, "Open Court" (1991)
• Peppercanister 18, The Pen Shop
• Peppercanister 19,
• Peppercanister 20, The Familiar (1999)
• Peppercanister 21, Godhead (1999)
• Peppercanister 22, Citizen of the World[2]
• Peppercanister 23, Littlebody[2]
• Peppercanister 24, Marginal Economy[3]
• Peppercanister 25, Readings in Poetry

Kinsella discusses works by William Shakespeare, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot

• Peppercanister 26, Man of War[4]
• Peppercanister 27, Belief and Unbelief (2007)[4]
• Peppercanister 28, Fat Master (2011)[4]
• Peppercanister 29, Love Joy Peace (2011)[4]

24, 26-29 collected as Late Poems (Carcanet Press, 2013)

Other collections

• Thomas Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems (University College Dublin Press, 2001)[2]

References

1. Kinsella, Thomas. “[www.jstor.org/stable/40350600|Visiting Hour].” Ploughshares, vol. 17, no. 1, 1991, pp. 103–105. Accessed Dec 7, 2016.
2. Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems, Publishers Weekly. Accessed Dec 7, 2016.
3. Kinsella, Thomas (1 November 2013). "Late Poems". Carcanet Press Ltd. – via Amazon.
4. Dedalus Press