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Life is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems, 1967-2007
Paul Durcan
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Description for Life is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems, 1967-2007
Hardcover. Throughout his long career, Paul Durcan has continued to make passionate and moving poetry out of his own and his country's misfortunes. He is by turns a surrealist, a mystic, an Irish comedian with perfect comic timing and an angry champion of the oppressed. This title presents his writings. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 39. Weight in Grams: 902. Previous owner's inscription on half title. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy
Famous for his electrifying poetry readings, Paul Durcan marks four decades of composing silently and reciting aloud with this magnificent collection, which brings together for the first time the critically acclaimed poet's own choice of his work from his first book, Endsville (1967), to The Laughter of Mothers (2007). Life is a Dream represents the whole range of Durcan's writing - funny and subversive verse narratives and self-mocking poems of underachievement; poems celebrating love and sex or the lives of famous writers and artists; as well as tender, poignant verses commemorating the dead. Throughout his long ... Read more
Famous for his electrifying poetry readings, Paul Durcan marks four decades of composing silently and reciting aloud with this magnificent collection, which brings together for the first time the critically acclaimed poet's own choice of his work from his first book, Endsville (1967), to The Laughter of Mothers (2007). Life is a Dream represents the whole range of Durcan's writing - funny and subversive verse narratives and self-mocking poems of underachievement; poems celebrating love and sex or the lives of famous writers and artists; as well as tender, poignant verses commemorating the dead. Throughout his long ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvill Secker London
Condition
Used, Very Good
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846550249
SKU
KSG0028234
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99-1
About Paul Durcan
Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944. His first book, Endsville (1967), has been followed by more than twenty others, including The Berlin Wall Cafe (a Poetry Book Society Choice in 1985), Daddy, Daddy (winner of the Whitbread Award for Poetry in 1990), Crazy About Women (1991), A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems (1993), Give Me ... Read more
Reviews for Life is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems, 1967-2007
Life is a Dream finally presents the evidence of major artistic achievement in a single, unified text.
Harry Clifton
Irish Times
The world is all the richer for this man's verse.
Irish Independent
Paul Durcan's Ireland is the one we inhabit. At times he is ready to celebrate the bizarre and ... Read more
Harry Clifton
Irish Times
The world is all the richer for this man's verse.
Irish Independent
Paul Durcan's Ireland is the one we inhabit. At times he is ready to celebrate the bizarre and ... Read more