I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.
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Poems of flight, new beginnings, sad partings and rich harvests
The greatest 20th century poet writing in English along with WB Yeats
A well-read eye observes nature over the passing years
Translating the poem, and the reader into the world of the poem
The elusive depth that lies behind the all-too-explicit ordinariness
An exploration of the complexities of identity and relationships
Darkly optimistic poems salvaged from the suburban humdrum
An anthology marked by warmth, bigness of heart and generosity of spirit
A collection in which many poems are akin to well-worked short stories
Poems marked by fierce imagination and enlivened by puckish wit