Product Description: "O'Driscoll is a quietly exciting, subtly intelligent poet."—Poetry London"O'Driscoll's crisp, unobtrusively musical precision gets to the heart of so many subjects, large and small."—The Guardian"O'Driscoll is a real poet: his lines stay with you, and crop up unbidden in your mind as you go about your day...read more

Product Description: In The Truth of Poetry Michael Hamburger taught his and later generations how to read beyond these shores. Dennis O'Driscoll has refined his giant oeuvre of poems, translations and essays into an essential volume that restores the legacy.

Product Description: Introduction by Seamus Heaney"Dennis O'Driscoll's long devotion to the stripped-down idiom of Eastern European poets such as Miroslav Holub and Wislawa Szymborska and an American like Marianne Moore encouraged a style that opted for the plain before the elevated, the colloquial before the eloquent...read more

Product Description: Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared before now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces Heaney's steps from his first exploratory testing of the ground as an infant to what he called his "moon-walk" to the podium to receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature...read more

Product Description: “Dennis O’Driscoll . . . is one of the most interesting poets now writing in English.”—Adam Kirsch, Slate"Dennis O'Driscoll has produced an extraordinary body of work...Some of his poems have already achieved the status of classics...read more

Product Description: The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, Volume I is a representative anthology meant to introduce to a broader audience a number of Irish poets, some young, some in their prime, who have not appeared widely before in North America...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Exemplary Damages is as fine and varied a collection as its five predecessors. It captures contemporary attitudes towards life, love and God with unfaltering accuracy in styles which range from the richly sensuous to the mercilessly mordant...read more

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Product Description: POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Dennis O'Driscoll's fifth collection contains poems in which his cool and unflinching vision lends a pungent originality to his treatment of love and death as well as to subjects as diverse - and improbable - as economic boom, business travel and Alzheimer's disease...read more

Product Description: "O'Driscoll's poetic language is a wonderfully weird mixture of the official and the intimate that captures the uneasy balance between the inner and outer selves of the managerial class". -- Dana Gioia, Harvard Review. O'Driscoll's fourth collection contains the long poem, "The Bottom Line", which comprises fifty incisive vignettes, written from a variety of viewpoints, on modern business and bureaucracy...read more

Product Description: Dennis O'Driscoll's third collection contains some of his most accomplished work to date, written with his characteristic blend of poignancy and dry wit. The book is notable for its engagement with contemporary life in both its benign and brutal aspects...read more