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Product Identifiers
PublisherDedalus Books The Limited
ISBN-101906614733
ISBN-139781906614737
eBay Product ID (ePID)159909011
Product Key Features
Book TitleGroundswell : New and Selected Poems
Number of Pages226 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2013
GenrePoetry
AuthorPatrick Deeley
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight5 oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal821.914
SynopsisGroundswell: New and Selected Poems draws on all of the previous collections of one of Irish poetry's most distinctive and compelling voices. The selection is introduced by Theo Dorgan. "Patrick Deeley's imaginative strength springs from his childhood in the west of Ireland, a life close to and involved with nature. But this is no simplistic nature poetry, the poems are rich - as is the soil - with contradictions, growth and failure, life and death, beauty and horror. If Deeley stoops "to decipher the scripture of the wood" he is yet aware that even the human is fragile and will pass back into that soil. The forms of the poems echo this watchful care, their stanzas shaped, their language poised and cautious. This volume of new and selected poems is a rich and a rigorous achievement." -John F. Deane "Though a number of Irish poets have written about the great changes in Ireland during the last ten to fifteen years, none have done it as beautifully, as potently as Deeley." -Contrary (USA)
