(Poems by Patrick MacDonogh is edited by Derek Mahon)
‘MacDonogh, a fine recorder of the natural world, is also a marvellous poet of love or, perhaps more accurately, the fragility of relationships . . . the true value of having Patrick MacDonogh’s work with us again is two-headed; he reminds us of the need for lyric craft in poetry . . . and that poetry is not journalism. — Books Ireland
‘Patrick MacDonogh is a very fine poet but like others of his generation, he has drifted from view . . . Perhaps we are only now in a position to critically appreciate the divergences that make up ‘Irish poetry’ and the men and women who wrote and published their books in Dublin, Belfast, London and further afield, between the Twenties and the beginnings of the poetry boom which started just a little after MacDonogh’s untimely death in 1961.’ — Gerald Dawe, Irish University Review
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| Weight | 235 g |
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‘MacDonogh, a fine recorder of the natural world, is also a marvellous poet of love or, perhaps more accurately, the fragility of relationships. MacDonogh should be on school courses . . . certainly givers of poetry workshops should refer to him. I’m inclined to the view that the true value of having Patrick MacDonogh’s work with us again is two-headed; he reminds us of the need for lyric craft in poetry (that, for example, poetry and song are intimately related), and that poetry is not journalism, not a mere lining up of images in prose lines, but a meaningful attempt to elevate the ordinary into the extra-ordinary, to overcome the everyday and re-form it: perhaps even make it glorious.’
— Fred Johnston, Books Ireland
Book Information
Year Published: 2001
Details: 96pp
ISBN PBK: 978 1 85235 287 5
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