Harry Clifton

For half a century of ever-broadening vision, award-winning poet Harry Clifton has addressed what the Irish Times calls "his large concerns and his angular relationship to Ireland, one that produces extraordinary verbal and emotional effects." His latest book is a quest--through origin and migration,...

A journey through spiritual orphanhood and the loss of innocence in a nomadic age.Harry Clifton's new volume charts a course through the territories of the Far East, revisiting themes of death and migration. These poems capture the epochal nature of Herod's Dispensations in both...

The poems in Secular Eden, drawn as they are from notebooks kept over a decade in Paris, are at once the lyrical diary of an Irish poet at a key moment in the life of Europe, and a meditation on sex and marriage, exile...

The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass follows the success of Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004, which won the 2008 Irish Times Poetry Now Award, the most prestigious poetry award in Ireland. In this new, deeply meditative and wide-ranging collection, Harry Clifton brings his extraordinary...