Description
In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was made by O'Driscoll himself before his death in 2012 and includes revised, authoritative versions of some older poems as well as thirtythree hitherto uncollected: the definitive poetic ouevre.
One of Ireland's outstanding poet-critics and a notable poet in his own right. Dennis O'Driscoll (1954-2012) wrote nine books of poems; his writing can be funny, wonderfully musical, and it tries to tell truths. Like Michael Hamburger, he is resolutely European, an intimate of Heaney's and other major Irish writers. He won the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the E. M. Forster Award.
About the Author
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954-2012) was born in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Apart from nine collections of poetry, books published during his lifetime included a selection of essays and reviews, Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams (2001), two collections of literary quotations and Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008). Among his awards were a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the 2005 E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2006 O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the Center for Irish Studies (Minnesota). A member of Aosdana, the Irish academy of artists, he worked for almost forty years in Ireland's Revenue and Customs service. He died on Christmas Eve, 2012.
Reviews
`It is as a poet of European temperament, and stature, that O'Driscoll demands to be judged. His terrain is, in effect, without borders: mordant, open, sharp, generous, and sad.' George Szirtes, Guardian; `It takes a special genius to see the real and important lurking in the mundanely routine - O'Driscoll, the Irish Larkin, does. This most astute of poets juxtaposes the soul of the artist with the exactness of the anthropologist; the result is work of meditative intelligence, humour and forgiving humanity.' Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
Book Information
ISBN 9781784105112
Author Dennis O'Driscoll
Format Paperback
Page Count 544
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm * 40mm
One of Ireland's outstanding poet-critics and a notable poet in his own right. Dennis O'Driscoll (1954-2012) wrote nine books of poems; his writing can be funny, wonderfully musical, and it tries to tell truths. Like Michael Hamburger, he is resolutely European, an intimate of Heaney's and other major Irish writers. He won the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the E. M. Forster Award.
About the Author
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954-2012) was born in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Apart from nine collections of poetry, books published during his lifetime included a selection of essays and reviews, Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams (2001), two collections of literary quotations and Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008). Among his awards were a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the 2005 E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2006 O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the Center for Irish Studies (Minnesota). A member of Aosdana, the Irish academy of artists, he worked for almost forty years in Ireland's Revenue and Customs service. He died on Christmas Eve, 2012.
Reviews
`It is as a poet of European temperament, and stature, that O'Driscoll demands to be judged. His terrain is, in effect, without borders: mordant, open, sharp, generous, and sad.' George Szirtes, Guardian; `It takes a special genius to see the real and important lurking in the mundanely routine - O'Driscoll, the Irish Larkin, does. This most astute of poets juxtaposes the soul of the artist with the exactness of the anthropologist; the result is work of meditative intelligence, humour and forgiving humanity.' Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
Book Information
ISBN 9781784105112
Author Dennis O'Driscoll
Format Paperback
Page Count 544
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm * 40mm
