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The Venice Suite: A Voyage Through Loss
Dermot Bolger
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Description for The Venice Suite: A Voyage Through Loss
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 5. Weight in Grams: 76.
‘A sequence of poems that no writer would ever wish to write’ The Venice Suite is a deeply personal sequence of poems that charts poet Dermot Bolger’s experience of sudden bereavement. It explores the stages and states of loss in an irrevocably altered world, where one partner is left behind to deal with the ongoing business of living while trying to comprehend the enormity of the severance of a shared life suddenly rendered into the past tense. They manage to be richly tender love poems while trying to map the unknown new territory in which any bereaved person finds themselves. ... Read more
‘A sequence of poems that no writer would ever wish to write’ The Venice Suite is a deeply personal sequence of poems that charts poet Dermot Bolger’s experience of sudden bereavement. It explores the stages and states of loss in an irrevocably altered world, where one partner is left behind to deal with the ongoing business of living while trying to comprehend the enormity of the severance of a shared life suddenly rendered into the past tense. They manage to be richly tender love poems while trying to map the unknown new territory in which any bereaved person finds themselves. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New Island Books
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781848401907
SKU
V9781848401907
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About Dermot Bolger
Born in Dublin in 1959, the poet, playwright and novelist Dermot Bolger has also worked as a factory hand, library assistant and publisher. In 2012 he published his ninth poetry collection, The Venice Suite: A Voyage Through Loss, which commemorated his late wife, Bernie, who died in 2010. He also published his first ever novella, The Fall of Ireland; saw ... Read more
Reviews for The Venice Suite: A Voyage Through Loss
In the numbness of grief I felt certain I would never write poems again,” Bolger claims in his prefatory note. But his readers will be glad that he has done so… (in)… what is ultimately a book of celebration…unflinching and sad – and beautiful.
Times Literary Supplement The entire collection works as a marvellous elegy. Grief is called up ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement The entire collection works as a marvellous elegy. Grief is called up ... Read more