The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Tyne and Wear, 2012
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Paperback. At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's fullest and most ambitious attempt so far to bring together, in a single book, the discordant elements of an evolving Ireland, as it discovers itself, through public and private destinies, in the 21st century. Harry Clifton is one of the finest and most widely travelled poets of his generation. The poems of The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass bring together a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (Paperback)
- Author
- Harry Clifton
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Tyne and Wear
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1852249358
- ISBN 13
- 9781852249359
At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's fullest and most ambitious attempt so far to bring together, in a single book, the discordant elements of an evolving Ireland, as it discovers itself, through public and private destinies, in the 21st century.
Harry Clifton is one of the finest and most widely travelled poets of his generation. He returned to Ireland in 2004, after sixteen years abroad, and began writing and publishing the poems that culminate, after seven years, in this timely new collection, which was shortlisted for the Irish Times / Poetry Now Award. He now lives in Dublin and was Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2010-13.
Harry Clifton has published twelve books of poetry, the most recent of which are The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014), Portobello Sonnets (2017), Herod's Dispensations (2019) and Gone Self Storm (2023), all published by Bloodaxe Books in Britain and Ireland, and by Wake Forest University Press in the USA.
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About the Author
Harry Clifton was born in 1952 in Dublin, and educated at University College Dublin. After graduating he began an extended period of life outside Ireland, lecturing at a Teacher Training College in West Africa in the 1970s and working as an aid administrator in Indochina in the 1980s. Experiences from this time had a major influence on his work, including his belief that ‘the true home of the poet is not in a place but in the language itself’. After spells in Italy, England and Germany, he settled with his wife the Irish novelist Deirdre Madden for ten years in Paris, a decade recorded in Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 (Wake Forest University Press, 2008). Since 2004 he has lived in Ireland, and teaches at Trinity College Dublin.
He has published twelve books of poetry, the most recent of which are The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014), Portobello Sonnets (2017), Herod's Dispensations (2019) and Gone Self Storm (2023), all published by Bloodaxe Books in Britain and Ireland, and by Wake Forest University Press in the USA. His prose books include On the Spine of Italy, a travel memoir (Macmillan, 1999), and Ireland and its Elsewheres, lectures on Irish poetry, (University College Dublin Press, 2015).
Harry Clifton has held many teaching positions at universities including Bremen in Germany and Bordeaux in France, as well as University College Dublin and Trinity College in Ireland. In 2008 he won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004, and The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass – which was shortlisted for the same award – was the Irish Times Book of the Year for 2012. He served as the fifth Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2010–2013, and is a member of Aosdána.
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