"Dear Life" is Dennis O'Driscoll's ninth book of poetry. Like his earlier work, it engages with contemporary issues - the internet era, the compensation culture, global warming - as well as providing fresh perspectives on the timeless topics of working and ageing, loving and dying, God and Mammon. Several startling poems give voice to twenty-first century Western attitudes towards religious belief. With its wry, double-edged title, the sequence "Dear Life" attempts nothing less than an exploration of the nature and purpose of human life.
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'It takes a special genius to see the real and important lurking in the mundanely routine - O'Driscoll, the Irish Larkin, does. This most astute of poets juxtaposes the soul of the artist with the exactness of the anthropologist; the result is work of meditative intelligence, humour and forgiving humanity.' Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times 'Dennis O'Driscoll has produced an extraordinary body of work - Some of his poems have already achieved the status of classics.' Richard Tillinghast, Poetry Ireland Review
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Dennis O'Driscoll was born in Thurles in 1954. He has published eight previous collections of poetry, a book of essays, two collections of literary quotations and 'Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney'. He has received numerous awards in Ireland and the USA. He worked for almost forty years in Ireland's Revenue and Customs service.
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A thoughtful and penetrative analysis of life viewed through the lens of one of Ireland's most beloved and missed poets. Read it for the beauty of its poetry and read it to celebrate a life well lived.
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