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Reality Check
Dennis O'Driscoll
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Description for Reality Check
Paperback. From the mixture of shorter poems, this collection branches out with 'Skywriting', a visually dramatic and rhythmically vibrant sequence which paints a map of light in its varied moods and modulations. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 6. Weight in Grams: 140. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Dennis O’Driscoll lends his transformative vision to everyday ‘bread and butter’ routines and the insidious forces that imperil them. From the entertaining mixture of shorter poems which opens his eighth collection, he branches out with Skywriting, a visually dramatic and rhythmically vibrant sequence which paints a map of light in its varied moods and modulations. Part lamentation, part celebration, the sequence glints with interludes of sunlit repose, while also flashing a scrutinising light on darker aspects of our century and environment.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Anvil Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856464027
SKU
KOC0003608
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Dennis O'Driscoll
Dennis O’Driscoll (1954–2012) was born in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Apart from nine collections of poetry, books published during his lifetime included a selection of essays and reviews, Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams (2001), two collections of literary quotations and Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008). Among his awards were a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the 2005 E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2006 O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry from the Center for Irish Studies (Minnesota). A member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of artists, he worked for almost forty years in Ireland’s Revenue and Customs service. He died on Christmas Eve, 2012. A second collection of his essays, The Outnumbered Poet, was published by Gallery Press in 2013. His selection from the works of Michael Hamburger, A Michael Hamburger Reader, will be published by Anvil in 2015.