Weather Permitting - Softcover

Dennis O'Driscoll

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856463159 ISBN 13: 9780856463150

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 2004

Synopsis

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Dennis O'Driscoll's fifth collection contains poems in which his cool and unflinching vision lends a pungent originality to his treatment of love and death as well as to subjects as diverse - and improbable - as economic boom, business travel and Alzheimer's disease. By contrast, the book also contains more lyrical and personal poems, including the tender and evocative childhood sequence with which the collection ends. Weather Permitting' follows O'Driscoll's widely praised Quality Time' (1997) which contained his celebrated long poem, The Bottom Line', described by Alan Brownjohn in The Sunday Times' as devastatingly accurate, and scary'.

Born in Thurles, Co. Tipperary in 1954, Dennis O'Driscoll works for Irish Customs in Dublin. Also well known as a critic, he contributes to Poetry Review', Harvard Review', the TLS' and many other journals in Britain, Ireland, the USA and Australia. As the Poet Said', a selection of quotations from his long-standing Poetry Ireland Review' column, was published in 1997.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Thurles, County Tipperary in 1954, Dennis O'Driscoll is widely-known as a critic as well as a poet; a selection of his essays and reviews, Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams (The Gallery Press), appeared in 2001. In 1999, he received a Lannan Literary Award. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.

Review:

9 A.m.
Background Music
Breviary: Departures
Breviary: Edward Hopper
Breviary: Jack
Breviary: Three-month Sabbatical
Breviary: Web Site
Buying A Letterbox
The Celtic Tiger
Churchyard View: The New Estate
Coming Of Age
Deadlines
Delegates
Either
End Of The Peach Season
Family Album
Four Destinations: 1
Four Destinations: 2
Four Destinations: 3
Four Destinations: 4
Friday
Hay Barn
In Memory Of Alois Alzheimer
Interim Reports
Jet Age
Life Cycle
Newgrange
Nocturne
Nor
Only
Snail's Pace
A Station
To A Love Poet
To Love
Tomorrow
Towards A Cesare Pavese Title
The Victim
Votive Candles
Weather Permitting: 1
Weather Permitting: 2
Weather Permitting: 3. After Leopardi
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0856463159
• ISBN 13: 9780856463150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88