Böcker av 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, 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).

Spiritual orphanhood and the loss and protection of innocence lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish poet Harry Clifton, in poems which 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.

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.

Sonnets by one of Ireland's leading poets celebrating his own part of Dublin: also a coming to terms with age and a rediscovering of the universal in the local.

New retrospective by one of Ireland's leading poets.

The poems of The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass bring together a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry.