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Dear Life focuses largely on mortality in a consumerist world, and foreshadows the author’s sudden death in December 2012.
Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced, providing an original, diverting and absorbing store of reflections, opinions and recollections.
A teeming mosaic of provocative one-liners and chewy ruminations on the art and practice of poetry.
This is a collection of poetry from the pen of Dennis O'Driscoll.
Dennis O'Driscoll's third collection contains some of his most accomplished work date, written with his characteristic blend of poignancy and dry wit, and is notable for its engagement with contemporary life in both its benign and brutal aspects.
Career-spanning introduction to one of Ireland's bestselling and most enjoyable poets.
Sixth collection of poems by the bestselling Irish poet and critic.
"O'Driscoll is a quietly exciting, subtly intelligent poet."—Poetry London "O'Driscoll's crisp, unobtrusively musical precision gets to the heart of so many subjects, large and small."—The Guardian "O'Driscoll is a real poet: his lines stay with you, and crop up unbidden in your mind as you go about your day."—Poetry Ireland Review Update, the final collection of work by the late Dennis O'Driscoll, weaves a memoir of his past into the state of the world today. The poems embark on a vivid journey through consumerism, our environment, and our fragile existence. Update is O'Driscoll's parting gift, granting a shimmering glimpse of what it truly means to be human. Ticking the Boxes Tick th...
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The recent Lannnan Award-winning Irish poet.