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).





Smile, Please: Ultra-light verse for absolute beginners
Comic Poems
The Christmas Collection
Spiritlands
God Love Poetry, In-Prints You
Words the Turtle Taught Me
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
How To Write Poems
Soemps