Taking My Letters Back is a welcome and long overdue collection of new and previously published poems by Dermot Bolger. It combines a selection of the best of Bolger's early work (often in freshly worked versions), along with two dozen new poems written over the past decade which have never before been collected in book form. Books Ireland described Bolger's poetry as having an abrasive brilliance, energy, economy and frankness, and musical quality. Combining poetry of lament and celebration, ghost voices and love poems, ...
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Taking My Letters Back is a welcome and long overdue collection of new and previously published poems by Dermot Bolger. It combines a selection of the best of Bolger's early work (often in freshly worked versions), along with two dozen new poems written over the past decade which have never before been collected in book form. Books Ireland described Bolger's poetry as having an abrasive brilliance, energy, economy and frankness, and musical quality. Combining poetry of lament and celebration, ghost voices and love poems, Taking My Letters Back completes the missing piece in that tapestry which has been the work of one of Ireland's most distinctive writers over the past two decades. Dermot Bolger has published fiction, essays, and plays, and the highly regarded memoir, A Goat's Song.
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Very Good. 1998. Paperback. 8vo. Very good copy in original printed covers. First edition. Irish Poetry. Signed by the author.....We ship daily from our warehouse.
