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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, South America to the North of
Ireland, Khao I Dang refugee camp to Glasnevin graveyard, for a
lost maternal ground. Harry Clifton has published ten other books
of poetry, most recently The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012),
The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014), Portobello
Sonnets (2017) and Herod's Dispensations (2019).
This selection presents for the first time the thirty year
trajectory of an acclaimed Irish poet who has lived and worked
between the secular and the religious, Eros and history, Ireland
and elsewhere, be it west Africa after civil war, south-east Asia
after the Khmer Rouge or Europe at the collapse of the Berlin Wall,
and whose extraordinary body of work has re-defined what it means
to be Irish in the twenty-first century. Harry Clifton has
published six other books of poetry, most recently The Winter Sleep
of Captain Lemass (2012) from Bloodaxe, and Secular Eden: Paris
Notebooks 1994-2004 (2007), winner of the Irish Times / Poetry Now
Award, from Wake Forest University Press in the US. His other books
include On the Spine of Italy (1999), his prose study of an
Abruzzese mountain community, and Berkeley's Telephone (2007), a
collection of short fiction.
At once a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on
love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign
ancestry, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass is Harry Clifton's
fullest and most ambitious attempt so far to bring together, in a
single book, the discordant elements of an evolving Ireland, as it
discovers itself, through public and private destinies, in the 21st
century. Harry Clifton is one of the finest and most widely
travelled poets of his generation.
Spiritual orphanhood, the loss and protection of innocence - from
the first estates of Dublin to the karmic wastes of northern China
- lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish poet
Harry Clifton. Herod's Dispensations shows his work now reaching
beyond middle age, to revisit - in meditations on death and
migration - the territories of the Far East from his early years,
in the light of a new nomadic age. Harry Clifton has published nine
other books of poetry, most recently The Winter Sleep of Captain
Lemass (2012), The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014)
and Portobello Sonnets (2017).
Portobello, the district in Dublin where the Irish poet Harry
Clifton lives, is a microcosm of a changing, cosmopolitan Ireland.
These sonnets, written on his return from sixteen years in
continental Europe, are at once a celebration of place, a coming to
terms with age and a rediscovering of the universal in the local.
Harry Clifton has published seven other books of poetry, most
recently The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014) and
The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012) from Bloodaxe, and
Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 (2007), winner of the Irish
Times / Poetry Now Award, from Wake Forest University Press in the
US. His other books include On the Spine of Italy (1999), his prose
study of an Abruzzese mountain community, and Berkeley's Telephone
(2007), a collection of short fiction.
Ireland and Its Elsewheres is the next volume in UCD Press's The
Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland
Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established
in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to
Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast,
Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council
of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion.
Michael Longley's lectures were published in June 2015 and the next
volume will contain the lectures of Paula Meehan. In this volume,
the distinguished Dublin poet Harry Clifton - who has lived and
worked all over the globe - focuses on locating himself and other
Irish poets in relation to the literary traditions of Britain,
Europe and the United States. Clifton opens by recounting his time
living in London in the late eighties and early nineties. He
discusses how he and a group of other poets were part of London's
'cultural clutter', and how their poetry reckoned with a time of
great social and political upheaval in Britain. The second lecture
focusses on Irish poetry's place in the 'eternal present' of
Europe.Patrick Kavanagh and Thomas Kinsella are among the poets
discussed in this illuminating comparison between neighbouring
nations. Clifton closes the collection by extending his discussion
on poetry to the United States - a land of exiles and immigrants.
From Derek Mahon to Oscar Wilde, Clifton examines Irish poets in
the New World, and describes how America has come to mean 'artistic
posterity' for many of them. From one of Ireland's leading
contemporary poets, this volume gives readers a rare insight into
Irish poetry's place in the world.
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