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Patrick Kavanagh ou, em gaélico, Pádraig ui Caomhánaigh, nasceu em 1904, na pequena Inniskeen (ou Inis Caoin, que em gaélico significa "ilha pacífica"), na província do Ulster, norte da Irlanda. Publicou o primeiro livro em 1936, a coletâneaThe Ploughman and Other Poems. Em seguida, viria a lumeThe Great Hunger (1942), um de seus trabalhos mais conhecidos, um belo poema longo que acabou banido pelo Ministério da Justiça de seu país, por ser considerado ofensivo à igreja católica.
Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move
Along the side-fall of the hill - Maguire and his men.
If we watch them an hour is there anything we can prove
Of life as it is broken-backed over the Book
Of Death? Here crows gabble over worms and frogs
And the gulls like old newspapers are blown clear of the hedges, luckily.
Is there some light of imagination in these wet clods?
Or why do we stand here shivering?
Which of these men
Loved the light and the queen
Too long virgin? Yesterday was summer.
(fragmento inicial do poema-em-sérieThe Great Hunger, de Patrick Kavanagh)
Kavanagh é um dos poetas mais populares da Irlanda, e alguns de seus poemas tornaram-se canções, como é o caso de "On Raglan Road", que, no vídeo abaixo, podemos ouvir na voz do próprio Patrick Kavanagh e então na voz de Luke Kelly, que musicou o poema com sua banda The Dubliners.
On Raglan Road
Patrick Kavanagh
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge,
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay -
O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign that's known
To the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone
And word and tint. I did not stint for I gave her poems to say.
With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow
That I had wooed not as I should a creature made of clay -
When the angel woos the clay he'd lose his wings at the dawn of day.
Kavanagh está entre os poetas modernistas que se mantiveram, em certos aspectos, ligados à linguagem e à vida de sua província, algo como o brasileiro Carlos Drummond de Andrade, o americano William Carlos Williams, o espanhol Antonio Machado ou o italiano Guido Gozzano, o que os torna bastante conhecidos em suas comunidades linguísticas mas os mantém obscuros para a narrativa crítica oficial do chamado "Modernismo Internacional", que privilegiou a dicção tida como "cosmopolita", ou, digamos, "urbana" e "metropolitana" de poetas como Eliot, Ungaretti ou Apollinaire. No volumeDa Poesia à Prosa (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2007), o crítico italiano Alfonso Berardinelli argumenta em favor da modernidade destes poetas "da província", no interessante ensaio "Cosmopolitismo e provincianismo na poesia moderna", tecendo seu "elogio do provincianismo" ao discutir poetas italianos como Marino Moretti e Guido Gozzano, com implicações interessantes também para uma discussão da poesia brasileira moderna.
Patrick Kavanagh publicou ainda as coletâneasA Soul For Sale (1947),Come Dance with Kitty Stobling and Other Poems (1960) e reuniu seus poemas em 1964, no volumeCollected Poems. O poeta morreu em Dublin, em 1967.
Abaixo, uma tentativa de tradução e o original de "Inniskeen Road: July Evening", um dos textos mais conhecidos de Patrick Kavanagh.
--- Ricardo Domeneck
Patrick Kavanagh Returns Home to Inniskeen in Co. Monaghan, Ireland 1966
"I was told that Kavanagh was not supposed to be read on the BBC" | The Late Late Show | RTÉ One
Anthony Cronin documentary on Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan & Flann O'Brien. Part 1 of 4
'Epic' read by Patrick Kavanagh
On Raglan Road - By Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh - The Pincer Jaws of Heaven
The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh (complete)
A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh
The Dubliners - I knew Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh’s Old Friends, Ireland 1967
If Ever You Go To Dublin Town - Patrick Kavanagh
Reminiscing on Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh - On raglan road
Kathleen Watkins Reads 'In Memory Of My Mother' by Patrick Kavanagh
Dara Ó Briain reads Patrick Kavanagh's 'Epic'
Patrick Kavanagh's 50th Anniversary Graveside Tribute
The Great Hunger (part one) by Patrick Kavanagh
Michael D. Higgins - Stony Grey Soil
Anthony Cronin documentary on Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan & Flann O'Brien. Part 4 of 4
"A Christmas Childhood" by Patrick Kavanagh; "The Wexford Carol" (HD)
'Kerr's Ass' read by Patrick Kavanagh
Stephen Rea 💖 reads ‘A Christmas Childhood' by Patrick Kavanagh - slideshow
"On Raglan Road" by Patrick Kavanagh (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
Patrick Kavanagh - Inniskeen Road (Poetry Reading)
Katherine Lynch and Patrick Kavanagh - Raglan Road | The Late Late Show | RTÉ One
Memory of my Father by Patrick Kavanagh
The Hospital - Patrick Kavanagh
Patrick Kavanagh Graveside Tribute 1
Jessie Buckley - Epic
Patrick Kavanagh - Advent
Aaron Monaghan reads Patrick Kavanagh's "The Hospital"
Hozier - Peace
Patrick Kavanagh sings the final verse of Raglan Road.
Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Patrick Kavanagh
Lines Written On a Seat On The Grand Canal, Dublin - by Patrick Kavanagh (Poetry Reading)
On Raglan Road - by Patrick Kavanagh (Poetry Reading)
🏹 Top 16 Quotes of Patrick Kavanagh - Poet
On An Apple Ripe September Morning by Patrick Kavanagh
from The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh
Memory of My Father - by Patrick Kavanagh (Poetry Reading)
Liam Neeson - Memory Of My Father
Patrick Kavanagh - Canal Bank Walk
Luke Kelly Raglan Road - LIVE Dublin, 1979
The untold story of A Christmas Childhood | Patrick Kavanagh
The Literary Renaissance in Dublin
Patrick Kavanagh :: IR 42 | Freestyle Training
Patrick Kavanagh & the Inniskeen Museum John Bowman 6th September 2020
Colm Keegan w/ Laura Durrant "Raglan Road" (Patrick Kavanagh poem) @ Eddie Owen Presents
Raglan Road - with the mystery girl and the song's back story.
Shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh
