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"Formally adept and animated by an intimate, often humorous voice, the poems in Dubliner John O’Donnell’s three previous collections find their inspiration in subjects as diverse as history, art (not least religious art), a variety of sports, and family relationships. Throughout, O’Donnell’s imagination is alive and curious, ""A gleam, this new idea in his head,” as he writes in ‘Volta’, his poem on Joyce’s famous Dublin cinema. Though modest in number, the new poems included here make up a deeply moving journey through the recent loss of a parent and the hopeful emergence into light again."

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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 awards include the Hennessy Award for Poetry, the Ireland Funds Prize, and the Seacat National Poetry Prize. As a fiction writer his work has appeared widely in recent years, and in 2013 he received the Hennessy Award for Fiction. A senior counsel, he lives and works in Dublin. He has been a member of the Board of Poetry Ireland, among other institutions, and currently serves on the Board of The Arts Council.

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