Description
For half a century of ever-broadening vision, award-winning poet Harry Clifton has addressed what the Irish Times calls ‘his large concerns and his angular relationship to Ireland, one that produces extraordinary verbal and emotional effects’. His latest book is a quest, through origin and migration, South America to the North of Ireland, Khao I Dang refugee camp to Glasnevin graveyard, for a lost maternal ground.Harry Clifton has published ten other books of poetry, most recently The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014), Portobello Sonnets (2017) and Herod’s Dispensations (2019).
A Quarter of an Hour 
The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland 
Two Stories of the Seen and Unseen: The Open Door & Old Lady Mary 
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland 
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind (Edited by Jonathan Bate) 
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman Pocket Poets) 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Bedouin Of The London Evening: Collected Poems 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
The World Record 
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots 
Farewell My Lovely 
Comic Poems 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Dog Poems 
Swansea Automatic