Cries of an Irish Caveman by Durcan, Paul

Cries of an Irish Caveman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781910701133)

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Cries of an Irish Caveman by Durcan, Paul

Cries of an Irish Caveman

$22.95
Cries of an Irish Caveman by Durcan, Paul

Cries of an Irish Caveman

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Cries of an Irish Caveman is Paul Durcan's most inspired and surprising collection of poems. Through four distinct sections, he brings his tender lyricism to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death.

The first section describes an experience in Australia which provides a starting point for reassessing his past relationships and loves. The second returns to Ireland, its people and places, the celebrated and the unknown. The third section is a meditation on his daughter's marriage, placing within an historical and sacramental context a very personal event.

And finally, in some of his most daring and original writing, Durcan describes his own twentieth-century romance, replete with ecstacies and inevitable agonies, beauty and hope, but also brutality and self-abasement.

Author: Paul Durcan
ISBN-10: 1910701130
ISBN-13: 9781910701133
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
By Paul Durcan
By Paul Durcan
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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 Café (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 Your Hand (1994), Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil (1999), The Art of Life (2004), The Laughter of Mothers (2007), Life is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems 1967-2007 (2009), Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have My Being (2012), and The Days of Surprise (2015). In 2001 Paul Durcan received a Cholmondeley Award. He was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2004 to 2007. He was conferred with a DLitt by Trinity College Dublin in 2009 and by University College Dublin in 2011. In 2014 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Irish Book Award. He is a member of Aosdána.

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