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Weather Permitting
Dennis O´driscoll
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Description for Weather Permitting
Paperback. Contains poems which give a 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, this book also includes lyrical and personal poems, including the tender and evocative childhood sequence with which the collection ends. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 140. First edition. Signed and inscribed by author. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
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'.
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'.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856463150
SKU
KOC0003630
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About Dennis O´driscoll
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Weather Permitting
'It's always a pleasure to read a volume that you can commend unequivocally to anyone with a heart and a mind. O'Driscoll's crisp, unobtrusively musical precision gets to the heart of so many subjects, large and small...' - Robert Potts, The Guardian