Dennis O'Driscoll is among the finest and most popular poets of his generation. "New and Selected Poems" shows him to be a poet of humanity and wit whose observant, rhythmically supple poetry is attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life. One of the book's highlights is The Bottom Line, a multi-voiced and multifaceted portrait of business managers and bureaucrats. Closing with a generous selection of previously unpublished work, "New and Selected Poems" - which follows Dennis O'Driscoll's acclaimed "Exemplary Damages", chosen as a Book of the Year by Seamus Heaney in 2002 - makes for a compelling collection, wide in its appeal and yet imbued with a distinctive and often startling world-view.
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'...it is as a poet of European temperament, and stature, that O'Driscoll demands to be judged.'George Szirtes, The Guardian
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Born in Thurles, County Tipperary in 1954, Dennis O'Driscoll has published six collections of poetry and a selection of his essays and reviews, `Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams' (Gallery Press). He received a Lannan Literary Award in 1999, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005 and the O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry in 2006. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.
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This edition of Denis O Driscoll's poetry has all my favourites.
It is very sad that this brilliant poet has died so young.
It is very sad that this brilliant poet has died so young.
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Contains One of the Classics
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By James J. Paul
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Mr. O'Driscoll's poem "Vigil" will become recognized as one of the great poems of the modern age, in any literature. All hail a true Irish "bard"!
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What a treasure, to read of this man's work. He is beloved in his native Ireland and now has traveled across the ocean.
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