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Portobello Sonnets
Harry Clifton
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Description for Portobello Sonnets
paperback. Sonnets by one of Ireland's leading poets celebrating his own part of Dublin: also a coming to terms with age and a rediscovering of the universal in the local. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 88. Very good clean copy, like new
Portobello, the district in Dublin where the Irish poet Harry Clifton lives, is a microcosm of a changing, cosmopolitan Ireland. These sonnets, written on his return from sixteen years in continental Europe, are at once a celebration of place, a coming to terms with age and a rediscovering of the universal in the local. Harry Clifton has published seven other books of poetry, most recently The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014) and The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012) from Bloodaxe, and Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 (2007), winner of the Irish Times / Poetry Now Award, from Wake ... Read more
Portobello, the district in Dublin where the Irish poet Harry Clifton lives, is a microcosm of a changing, cosmopolitan Ireland. These sonnets, written on his return from sixteen years in continental Europe, are at once a celebration of place, a coming to terms with age and a rediscovering of the universal in the local. Harry Clifton has published seven other books of poetry, most recently The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014) and The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012) from Bloodaxe, and Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 (2007), winner of the Irish Times / Poetry Now Award, from Wake ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780373478
SKU
KSG0030423
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About Harry Clifton
Harry Clifton was born in 1952 in Dublin, where he was educated at Blackrock College and University College, Dublin. After graduating, Clifton began an extended period of travel outside of Ireland. Many of his experiences from this time had major influence on his poetry because he believes the true home of the poet is 'not in a place, but in ... Read more
Reviews for Portobello Sonnets
Clifton's civilised appreciation of the cosmopolitan fluidity of his chosen place is matched by the fluency of these sonnets... Clifton's is a sophisticated and humanistic imagination, alert to the saving human detail and at some level always in search of the bigger picture. His work is ridden by time and the sense that there is nothing new under the sun ... Read more