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Dear Life

  • ISBN-13: 9780856464584
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Dennis O'Driscoll
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Local release date: 18/07/2014
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 120 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Foreword by Seamus Heaney. "Dear Life" is Dennis O'Driscoll's ninth book of poetry. Like his earlier work, it engages with contemporary issues - the internet era, the compensation culture, global warming - as well as providing fresh perspectives on the timeless topics of working and ageing, loving and dying, God and Mammon. Several startling poems give voice to twenty-first century Western attitudes towards religious belief. With its wry, double-edged title, the sequence "Dear Life" attempts nothing less than an exploration of the nature and purpose of human life.
Dennis O'Driscoll was born in Thurles in 1954. He has published eight previous collections of poetry, a book of essays, two collections of literary quotations and 'Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney'. He has received numerous awards in Ireland and the USA. He worked for almost forty years in Ireland's Revenue and Customs service. Dennis O'Driscoll's books include nine collections of poetry, two of essays, two of literary quotatiions and Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008). A member of Aosdana, the Irish academy of artists, he worked for almost forty years in Ireland's Revenue and Customs service.
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