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 Black Place
Slipping the Leash
Somewhere Else Entirely
Isn't Forever
Loudness
Negative of a Group Photograph
Insistence
This Is Yarrow
Carnac (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets)
Running Upon the Wires
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
Poems
Six Poets
Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind (Edited by Jonathan Bate)