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13%OFFHarry Clifton - Herod´s Dispensations - 9781780374512 - 9781780374512
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Herod´s Dispensations

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Description for Herod´s Dispensations Paperback.
Spiritual orphanhood, the loss and protection of innocence - from the first estates of Dublin to the karmic wastes of northern China - lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish poet Harry Clifton. Herod's Dispensations shows his work now reaching beyond middle age, to revisit - in meditations on death and migration - the territories of the Far East from his early years, in the light of a new nomadic age. Harry Clifton has published nine other books of poetry, most recently The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780374512
SKU
9781780374512
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About Harry Clifton
Harry Clifton was Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2010-13. His books include Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks (Wake Forest University Press, USA, 2007), winner of the Irish Times / Poetry Now Award, and five titles from Bloodaxe, among these, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), shortlisted for Irish Times / Poetry Now Award, The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014), ... Read more

Reviews for Herod´s Dispensations
'There is so much history in Harry Clifton's poems, so much geography, landscape, cityscape, repeopled precincts of the imagination, so much human drama and comedy; so many people, mythic, unlikely and hauntingly real. And all of it is limned with a masterful formal dexterity and an apparently limitless cultural curiosity' - C.K. Williams.; 'The poems begin with something seen, remembered, ... Read more

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