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Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of
his generation. New and Selected Poems' shows him to be a poet of
humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is
attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life. One of
the book's highlights is The Bottom Line, a multi-voiced and
multifaceted portrait of business managers and bureaucrats.
Closing with a generous selection of previously unpublished
work, New and Selected Poems' - which follows Dennis O'Driscoll's
acclaimed Exemplary Damages', chosen as a Book of the Year by
Seamus Heaney in 2002 - makes for a compelling collection, wide in
its appeal and yet imbued with a distinctive and often startling
world-view.
Born in Thurles, County Tipperary in 1954, Dennis O'Driscoll has
published six collections of poetry and a selection of his essays
and reviews, Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams' (Gallery Press).
He received a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the E.M. Forster Award
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005 and the
O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry in 2006. A civil servant since the
age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.
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