Cries of an Irish Caveman - Softcover

Durcan, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910701130 ISBN 13: 9781910701133

Publisher: Harvill Secker, 2015

Synopsis

Winner of the 2014 Irish Book Lifetime Achievement Award

Cries of an Irish Caveman is Paul Durcan's most inspired and surprising collection of poems. Through four distinct sections, he brings his tender lyricism to bear on the themes of love and loss, life, and death. The first section describes an experience in Australia which provides a starting point for reassessing his past relationships and loves. The second returns to Ireland, its people and places, the celebrated and the unknown. The third section is a meditation on his daughter's marriage, placing within an historical and sacramental context a very personal event. And finally, in some of his most daring and original writing, Durcan describes his own 20th century romance, replete with ecstasies and inevitable agonies, beauty, and hope, but also brutality and self-abasement.

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Durcan brings his tender lyricism and incisive wit to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death. The first section describes a near-death experience in Australia, which provides a starting point for reassessing his past relationships and loves. The second returns to Ireland, its people and places, the celebrated and the unknown. The third section is a meditation on his daughter's marriage, placing within an historical and sacramental context a very personal event. And finally, in some of his most daring and original writing, Durcan describes his own twentieth-century romance, replete with ecstasies and inevitable agonies, beauty and hope, but also brutality and self-abasement. Over the last 30 years, Paul Durcan has become one of the most highly regarded and popular poets in contemporary Ireland, celebrated both in his home country and internationally. Cries of an Irish Caveman is his most entertaining and original collection yet.

About the Author:

Paul Durcan is one of Ireland's foremost poets. His first book, Endsville, has been followed by more than 20 others, including The Berlin Wall Café (a Poetry Book Society Choice), Daddy, Daddy (winner of the Whitbread Award for Poetry), A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems, The Art of Life, and The Laughter of Mothers. In 2009 he published a selection of his work from the previous 40 years in one volume, Life Is a Dream.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Secker
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910701130
• ISBN 13: 9781910701133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176