Ciaran O’Driscoll

Posted on June 7, 2006 | Category: Writers

Through it I discovered Ciaran O’Driscoll from Limerick, and his collection Gog and Magog from which I bring you the following two. I love the way the first poem has me enter the park as the protagonist did, climbing over the wall ungracefully, and how we don’t see the poplar until after the fact, when he looks it up in a book. The second is at once a still life, a poem and a tryst. I love the unexpected combinations like lemon ghost and tightening rain.
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Gog and Magog

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cover art: David Lilburn
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format :: PDF (526k) :: Open Office 2 (216k) :: MS Word (308k)
genre :: Poetry
publisher :: Salmon Publishing
place & year ::Galway, 1987
ISBN :: Hardcover 0 948339 08 X. Softcover 0 948339 09 8
translations :: none
translation queries :: contact author
print-on-demand :: no
status :: out of circulation.
copies available: possibly from Salmon Poetry, Cliffs of Moher, Liscannor, Co Clare

Contact ::
ciaranodriscoll @ eircom.net

Links
A Runner Among Fallen Leaves (American edition)
A Runner Among Fallen Leaves (English edition)

Latest Book
Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems

Biographical Note

Ciaran O’Driscoll was born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny in
1943, and presently lives in Limerick, where he lectures in the
School of Art and Design at the Limerick Institute of Technology.
He has written five collections of poetry. The most recent, Moving
On, Still There: New and Selected Poems was published by the Dedalus
Press in 2001. In the same year, Liverpool University Press published
his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves. He has won a
number of awards for his work, including the Patrick and Katherine
Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.
A dual language edition (in Italian and English) of his fourth
collection of poems, The Old Women of Magione, will be published by
Volumnia Editrice in September 2006. Also in 2006, a chapbook, Surreal
Man, is to be published by Pighog Press (Brighton, UK).

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