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Poems 2011-2012
  • ISBN-13: 9780856464591
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: ANVIL PRESS POETRY
  • By Dennis O'Driscoll
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 20/10/2014
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 138.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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After the completion of Dear Life, his highly praised ninth collection of poems, Dennis ODriscoll kept his finished poems in a computer file called Newest Poems, subtitled Since completion of Dear Life" and April 2011 - . This book reproduces its complete contents. The title we have given it, from an outstanding poem, signifies one important aspect of the collection: that it forms a substantial update to the body of his published work. Despite the collections provisional and unfinished nature (since the poet surely hoped to add to it and prepare it for publication), the 33 poems are ones which his many readers will want to have. Darker even than much of Dear Life, they are full of his inimitable humour, his searching eye, his characteristic wit and wisdom.
Dennis O'Driscoll was born in 1954 and died on Christmas Eve, 2012. His books included nine collections of poetry, two of essays, two of literary quotations 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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