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Looking through you

Name: Looking through you
Author: Gerald Dawe

Gerald Dawe

16 August 2020

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Book Synopsis

Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, the sequel to renowned Belfast poet and author Gerald Dawe's critically acclaimed In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast, is the evocative record of the musical, literary and artistic influences that inspired and forged Dawe's awakening as a poet, and his career in Irish literature.Taking its bearings from Belfast in the 1960s, The Beatles' Rubber Soul album and the energising shock of reading the great American poets Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, Dawe's engagingly lyrical style has produced an evocative and memorable record of the music, poetry and culture of growing up in the northern capital. Featuring the stunning photography of Euan Gébler, this literary memoir is a must-have for fans of Dawe's work, a superb introduction to his world for new readers, and, in his own words,

About The Author

Gerald Dawe is a former Professor of English and Fellow Emeritus Trinity College. He has published ten collections of poetry and several volumes of essays, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Macaulay Fellowship in Literature. His latest poetry collection The Last Peacock was published in 2019; the collection of essays,The Sound of the Shuttle in 2020. He lives in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin.

Product Details

ISBN: 9781785372810
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Merrion Press, (16 August 2020)
Number of Pages: 114
Weight: 252 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 205 x 130 x 19 mm
Categories:: European Autobiography: writers