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      About the Book

      POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPECIAL COMMENDATION

      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      Closing with a generous selection of previously unpublished work, New and Selected Poems' - which follows Dennis O'Driscoll's acclaimed Exemplary Damages', chosen as a Book of the Year by Seamus Heaney in 2002 - makes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.

      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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      • Media: Paperback Book, 272 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry (Apr. 30th, 2005)
      • ISBN-10: 0856463736
      • ISBN-13: 9780856463730
      • Dimensions: 6.48 x 9.26 x 0.78 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 1.21 lbs
      • Categories: English Irish Scottish Welsh Poetry

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