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).







The Skies Above My Eyes
The Silvering
The Genre of Silence
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Poetry by Heart
Isn't Forever
Dreamer: saving Our Wild World
Comic Poems
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid
Santa's Greatest Gift
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