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Monsoon diaries
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- Book Synopsis
- Between the birth of the poet's daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diaries attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid-life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future. Monsoon Diaries strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age. But it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the seeds of a new half-crown of sonnets in a single line of Catullus, and, in Driving to Delvin, a poem of 84 couplets, breaks out into a kind of road movie of spirited and sometimes random association, bringing all of the book's many themes and ideas, its fears and hopes, together in a celebration of forward motion, of living itself.
- About The Author
- Joseph Woods is the award-winning author of three poetry collections. His first, Sailing to Hokkaido (2001) won the Patrick Kavanagh Award and, together with his second, Bearings, was reissued by Dedalus in a single volume entitled Cargo in 2010. His most recent, Ocean Letters (2011), has been translated into Hungarian and was awarded the Irodalmi Jelen Prize in 2013. A past recipient of the Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship, he was for many years Director of Poetry Ireland. Widely travelled, he moved to Myanmar in the years leading up to the democratic elections and now lives in Harare, Zimbabwe with his family.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781910251355
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dedalus Press, (01 April 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 94
- Weight
- 150 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 218 x 149 x 7 mm
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