About this title: Bernard O'Donoghue's magnificent fourth collection of poetry explores its title in a series of beautifully wrought poems whose simple elegance belie their complexity. There are moving elegies for people the poet has outlived. There are poems too about living outside the poet's original environment and the inclination to return there for stories and feelings: the MacNeicean 'tourist in his own country', perpetually restive and perpetually homesick. But most important there is 'outliving' as in 'outdoing', or living a life of higher quality: the drinking of 'red wine outside in the sunlit ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780701174811ISBN:0701174811
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, Lochem, The Netherlands
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780701174811ISBN:0701174811
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Description: Fair. 0701174811 Textbook Student edition. CD NOT INCLUDED. Moderate dirt, wear, wrinkling, or creasing on cover and spine. Good binding. NO apparent loose pages. NO apparent missing pages. May have unnoticed missing pages, as this is a USED book and pages get lost easily. Heavy writing and highlighting. ct. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780701174811ISBN:0701174811
Description: A new collection-his fourth-from one of the best-loved contemporary Irish poets. O'Donoghue provides moving elegies for people he has outlived. There are poems too about living outside the poet's original environment and the inclination to return... read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: CHATTO AND WINDUS
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780701174811ISBN:0701174811
Description: Ex-Library Chatto and Windus, 2003. Paperback. Number of pages: 64. Ex. Library copy-usual stamps and marks. Book Condition: Good. #1315284 Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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