New and Selected Poems - Softcover

O'Driscoll, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856463736 ISBN 13: 9780856463730

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 2023

Synopsis

Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life. One of the book's highlights is The Bottom Line, a multi-voiced and multifaceted portrait of business managers and bureaucrats. Closing with a generous selection of previously unpublished work, "New and Selected Poems" - which follows Dennis O'Driscoll's acclaimed "Exemplary Damages", chosen as a Book of the Year by Seamus Heaney in 2002 - makes for a compelling collection, wide in its appeal and yet imbued with a distinctive and often startling world-view.

About this title

Review:

'...it is as a poet of European temperament, and stature, that O'Driscoll demands to be judged.'George Szirtes, The Guardian

About the Author:

Born in Thurles, County Tipperary in 1954, Dennis O'Driscoll has published six collections of poetry and a selection of his essays and reviews, 'Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams' (Gallery Press). He received a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005 and the O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry in 2006. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 0856463736
• ISBN 13: 9780856463730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272