Deeley is an Irish poet with a profound sense of place and of ecological awareness. Born in Loughrea, County, Galway, in 1953, he grew up on the edge of a wetland meadow, or callows, whose flora and fauna have provided an enduring theme for his writing over some 30 years.
Deeley is an Irish poet with a profound sense of place and of ecological awareness. Born in Loughrea, County, Galway, in 1953, he grew up on the edge ...
Groundswell: New and Selected Poems draws on all of the previous collections of one of Irish poetry's most distinctive and compelling voices. The selection is introduced by Theo Dorgan. "Patrick Deeley's imaginative strength springs from his childhood in the west of Ireland, a life close to and involved with nature. But this is no simplistic nature poetry, the poems are rich - as is the soil - with contradictions, growth and failure, life and death, beauty and horror. If Deeley stoops "to decipher the scripture of the wood" he is yet aware that even the human is fragile and will pass back...
Groundswell: New and Selected Poems draws on all of the previous collections of one of Irish poetry's most distinctive and compelling voices. The sele...