In this new collection, Gerald Dawe's formidable vision of being uncompromisingly unromatic and uncomfortably aware of our violent and cruel world, moves from the personal landscapes of suburban Ireland, through the classical echo-chamber and political upheaval of late twentieth-century Europe. Caught between the conflicting voices of the here-and-now and the haunting past, The Morning Train finds an unerring balance in poems of an unusual, austere clarity.
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In this new collection, Gerald Dawe's formidable vision of being uncompromisingly unromatic and uncomfortably aware of our violent and cruel world, moves from the personal landscapes of suburban Ireland, through the classical echo-chamber and political upheaval of late twentieth-century Europe. Caught between the conflicting voices of the here-and-now and the haunting past, The Morning Train finds an unerring balance in poems of an unusual, austere clarity.
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