Irish poet Theo Dorgan's first two collections, The Ordinary House of Love and Rosa Mundi, went out of print quickly; they were never republished despite widespread and ongoing demand. This book gathers in the poems from those early books, and brings them to a new and wider audience. Theo Dorgan is a poet, prose writer, editor, scriptwriter, translator and sailor. His prose account of a transatlantic voyage under sail Sailing for Home (Penguin Ireland) was praised by Doris Lessing as "a book for everyone." He is the editor and compiler of A Book of Uncommon Prayer (Penguin). He is the editor...

Born in Cork in 1953, Dorgan is one of Ireland's best-known poets. This volume is a vivid, sensual, technically brilliant new collection which transports the reader through time and space, history and myth, love and death.

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...

The National Museum of Ireland / Ard-Mhusaem na hEireann is a repository of memory - but also a living place that enriches and challenges the present, that preserves for the future a witness to who we have been. We invited more than forty poets, writing in both English and Irish, to visit any of the Museum's four collections - Archaeology in Kildare Street, Natural History in Merrion Street, Decorative Arts & History in Collins' Barracks, Dublin, and Country Life in Turlough Park, Co. Mayo - and to write a poem prompted by this visit. The resulting poems in this anthology are inspired by, in...

Irish poet Theo Dorgan's new collection of poems takes its title from a sequence of elegies, Nine for the Nine Bright Shiners. Yet though the book is unflinching as it faces the deaths of friends and loved ones and, indeed, the poet's own mortality, it is unstinting in its celebration of life and love, art and travel, seeing in voyages to other lands - and languages - the new perspectives that help us make sense of who are.