O'Driscoll, Dennis Quality Time ISBN 13: 9780856462900

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The poems in the first part of Dennis O'Driscoll's new book include backward glances to a Tipperary childhood, variations on the theme of stormy weather, a witty send-up of a poetry reading, and a vision of the rites of spring reduced to the lawnmower's first outing of the year. But beneath the smooth surface of public and private life in a modern European state lie darker considerations of time and death. Part 2 consists of one long poem, `The Bottom Line', which attracted widespread attention when it first appeared as a limited edition in Ireland in 1994. Here modern life, the world of business and bureaucracy, its directives and regulations, faxes and cash dispensers, office parties and office ambition, is incisively portrayed in a set of 50 sharp-eyed vignettes, and weighed against the unavoidable bottom line.

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Born in Thurles, County Tipperary in 1954, Dennis O'Driscoll has published six collections of poetry and a selection of his essays and reviews, `Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams' (Gallery Press). He received a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005 and the O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry in 2006. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.

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  • PublisherAnvil Pr Poetry Ltd
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 085646290X
  • ISBN 13 9780856462900
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  • Number of pages78

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