The Great Hunger

<p><i>''I have lived in important places, times</i><br><i>When great events were decided . . .''</i><br><br>By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece ''The Great Hunger'', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.<br><br>Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.</p>