Poet and story writer, actor, broadcaster, critic and one-time
academic at University College, Dublin, John Jordan (1930-88) was a
leading light in the literary life of Dublin from the 1950s until
his death in Cardiff in June 1988. A close friend of the poet
Patrick Kavanagh and of the novelist Kate O'Brien, he edited the
seminal '60s magazine Poetry Ireland and was the founding editor in
the early 1980s of its successor, Poetry Ireland Review. His
collected works, including Crystal Clear: Selected Prose (Lilliput
Press, 2006), have been edited by his literary executor, the poet
and critic Hugh McFadden. "John Jordan was conscious of the general
sense of malaise that pervaded post-war Europe. Some of the poems
from the 1960s and '70s come close to expressing a sense of
weltschmerz. Others] are poems of pity and terror, and are truly
haunting reflections on the nature of suffering, the mystery at the
heart of forgiveness, and the question of redemption." -from the
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