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P.J. Kavanagh


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in The United Kingdom
January 06, 1931

Died
August 26, 2015

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P. J. Kavanagh was a poet, writer, actor, broadcaster and columnist. Born in 1931, son of the radio comedy writer Ted Kavanagh, he went to a Benedictine school, served in the Korean war during national service, and worked for the British Council in Barcelona and Indonesia. He acted on stage and TV – his last appearance in an episode of Father Ted. The Perfect Stranger, awarded the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize in 1966, describes his early life. His columns for The Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement (he called them substitute poems) are collected in People and Places (1988) and A Kind of Journal (2003).

Poetry remained his major occupation. His New Selected Poems came out in 2014. Earlier collections include Presences (1987), An E
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Average rating: 3.78 · 266 ratings · 46 reviews · 36 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Perfect Stranger

3.55 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1966 — 16 editions
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The Oxford Book of Short Poems

3.96 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions
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P.J. Kavanagh: Collected Poems

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New Selected Poems

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Selected poems

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The Irish captain

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Finding Connections

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A Song and Dance

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions
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Book of Consolations

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992
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People & Weather (Calder Bo...

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