Imprint: Harvill Secker
Published: 07/05/2015
ISBN: 9781910701102
Length: 96 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 6mm x 136mm
Weight: 113g
RRP: £10.99
WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny edition in Dublin in 1975. It was Paul Durcan's first fully-fledged collection, and already displays an astonishingly mature, visionary power, shot through with the surrealism and heart-breaking comedy that have since become his hallmark. It won him the Patrick Kavanagh Award. Now Durcan's readers can discover what they have been missing. The poems are printed in the order he originally intended, and the volume concluded with six poems from his very first collaborative collection, Endsville (1967), with Brian Lynch.
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Published: 07/05/2015
ISBN: 9781910701102
Length: 96 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 6mm x 136mm
Weight: 113g
RRP: £10.99
Paul Durcan... is one of the country's leading living poets... His strange, mesmerising voice wraps itself around every syllable and texture of his poems, wrapping the audience into its very spell, into the very grain of the text
The voice speaks clearly on the page in poems of harrowing intimacy, politics and love. He holds a mirror up to himself: but we can see ourselves over his shoulder, whoever we are
This is the real thing. One can't say more, or less than that