Overview

"""Love, loss, memory, history, place are familiar preoccupations in John O'Donnell's work; and, though poetry's subject matter may be similar, a unique voice explores these themes in unique ways. The poems take us to very different places: Shakespeare in Ireland, the Holocaust, pioneering in Oregon, a grandmother's Alzheimer's. Here is a poet who searches for truth, and whether O'Donnell is remembering ""me, surly in a sleeping-bag, fifteen"" or the Omagh atrocity, the voice is always direct and honest, while capturing the close-up and personal with a wonderful fluency. O'Donnell's poetry explores the steady and steadying presence of love within a family context but it also gives us the bigger picture, pictures of injustice, turmoil, 'the unfathomable' and what O'Donnell calls 'a deep darker than ink'. Turn to these enriching and engaging poems in Sunlight: New and Selected Poems; the poems will turn to you. And you will be rewarded.""--Niall MacMonagle, from the Introduction"

Full Product Details

9781910251324

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

John O'Donnell was born in 1960. He has published three previous collections of poems, Some Other Country (2002), Icarus Sees His Father Fly (Dedalus Press, 2004) and On Water (Dedalus Press, 2014). His many awards include the Hennessy Award for Poetry, the Ireland Funds Prize, and the SeaCat National Poetry Prize. As a fiction writer his short stories have appeared widely in recent years, and in 2013 he received the Hennessy Award for Fiction. A senior counsel, he lives and works in Dublin.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available