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).






Four Poems
The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems
Words the Turtle Taught Me
Kumukanda
Poems of Childhood
The Handle of the Door
Steep Tea
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
This Is Yarrow
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
In Reality
Milk and Honey
Gold from the Stone
Selected Poetry