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A magnificent collection from the much-loved Irish poet.
In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra", stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be "globally sad", but "locally glad". Next he travels east to Dublin to hold in his arms his newborn granddaughter and thence to Tuscany, Poland and Japan. Along the way he reflects upon parental pride, the aches and pains of old age, the trim bottoms of snooker players, the wisdom of ex-wives and dogs on Sandymount Strand, while introducing us to a host of colourful characters, including a bishop, a roofer, a milkman, a priest and an unmarried mother.
Is there an art of living or is life a work of art? This magnificent collection -- originally published on Paul Durcan's sixtieth birthday -- reveals one of Ireland's most successful and popular poets at the height of his powers and continuing to challenge, amuse and delight.
In The Art of Life Paul Durcan takes us around County Mayo in his "filthy, two-door, bottle-green Opel Astra", stopping off at Westport and Achill Island, where he declares himself to be "globally sad", but "locally glad". Next he travels east to Dublin to hold in his arms his newborn granddaughter and thence to Tuscany, Poland and Japan. Along the way he reflects upon parental pride, the aches and pains of old age, the trim bottoms of snooker players, the wisdom of ex-wives and dogs on Sandymount Strand, while introducing us to a host of colourful characters, including a bishop, a roofer, a milkman, a priest and an unmarried mother.
Is there an art of living or is life a work of art? This magnificent collection -- originally published on Paul Durcan's sixtieth birthday -- reveals one of Ireland's most successful and popular poets at the height of his powers and continuing to challenge, amuse and delight.
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This magnificent new collection -- published on Durcan's sixtieth birthday -- takes us around Ireland, Tuscany, Poland and Japan, and reveals one of Ireland's most popular poets at the height of his powers. He continues to challenge, amuse and delight.
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PAUL DURCAN was born in Dublin in 1944. His first book, Endsville, has been followed by twenty-two others, including The Berlin Wall Café, Daddy, Daddy (winner of the Whitbread Award for Poetry in 1990), Crazy About Women, A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems, Give Me Your Hand, Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil, The Laughter of Mothers, Life is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems 1967-2007, and Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have My Being. He was conferred with a DLitt by Trinity College Dublin in 2009 and by University College Dublin in 2011.
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