Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds

ISBN 10: 1910251895 / ISBN 13: 9781910251898

Published by Dedalus Press, 2021

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR013590273

Synopsis:

What do we love? When troubles and doubts threaten to overwhelm, what sustains or inspires us? What are the things we cannot do without?

Recent events have made many of us question a great deal about our lives.Yet somehow they have also taught us to see the world afresh, leading to new discoveries, both tiny and monumental - and often right on our very doorsteps.

Featuring new and emerging as well as more established voices, Local Wonders is a record in poetry of an extraordinary time. More importantly, it is a record of how we have learned to accommodate and adapt, a re-mapping of our complex relationship to our immediate surrounds.

In these still challenging times, above all it is an invitation to sing the praises of what is of real value to us now - not to ignore the things that haunt and worry us, but to see beyond them to the better world that poetry brings into the light.

About the Author: Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise, Ireland in 1963 and has long since lived in Dublin. He has held a number of posts as Writer-in-Residence with libraries and third level institutions and has published six collections of poetry as well as New and Selected Poems (2007), with an introduction by the late Dennis O'Driscoll, and A Man Is Only As Good (2017), a pocket-sized introduction to his poetry to date. Editions of his work have appeared in Italian, Hungarian and Macedonian. His fiction publications include the short story collection, Strange Bedfellows (1991) and his Bisto Book of the Year Shortlisted children's title, All the Way from China (1999). Non-fiction includes the popular writers' handbook The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (revised and updated, 2013) and A Short History of Dublin (2000). His humorous memoir The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood, was published in December 2009. A former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and presenter of The Poetry Programme and The Enchanted Way on RTÉ Radio 1, he has edited numerous anthologies, among them Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler (2006), Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry (2009), The Bee-Loud Glade (2009) and, with Gerard Smyth, If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song, the 2014 Dublin: Once City, One Book choice. Awards include The Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1989 and the US-based Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award in the US in 2008.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate ...
Publisher: Dedalus Press
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good