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'He has written immortal poems. I revere him' Michael Longley
For fifty years the poet Paul Durcan has explored and questioned a world both real and imagined.
Steeped in the goings-on of Ireland and preoccupied with its concerns, he has delighted, enriched and unsettled his readers. His prodigious output of more than twenty collections bursts with poems that are courageously personal and passionately spiritual - a body of work that contains multitudes.
'The great enemy of art is the ego' says Durcan. 'It keeps getting in the way. One needs the ego to disappear so that I become you; I become the people walking up and down the street.'
First published in 1967, Durcan remains the most of companionable of poets. His vivacity and ability to surprise has never been clearer than in this new selection of eighty of his finest poems, published in celebration of his 80th birthday.
EDITED BY NIALL MACMONAGLE
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN
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His is a once-in-a-generation talent. He has written immortal poems. I revere him. -- Michael Longley To have heard him read adds another pleasure to the reading of his work - but the voice speaks clearly on the page in poems of harrowing intimacy, politics and love -- Carol Ann Duffy Durcan is a God. He can break your heart in supermarket or petrol station. He is unafraid, masterful and exactly what this world needs more of: wild abandon, wild love and sheer mad genius -- Alice Sebold The world is all the richer for this man's verse * Irish Independent * Profoundly funny and profoundly moving... a wonderful collection from a national treasure * Connaught Telegraph * The work of a singular Irish poet is celebrated in this welcome compendium of classic Durcan poems * RTE *More details
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