Description
Spiritual orphanhood, the loss and protection of innocence – from the first estates of Dublin to the karmic wastes of northern China – lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish poet Harry Clifton. Herod’s Dispensations shows his work now reaching beyond middle age, to revisit – in meditations on death and migration – the territories of the Far East from his early years, in the light of a new nomadic age. Harry Clifton has published nine other books of poetry, most recently The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014) and Portobello Sonnets (2017).
Six Vowels and Twenty Three Consonants: An Anthology of Persian Poetry from Ruda 
The Shirt, the Skull & the Grape 
Hansel and Gretel 
Ten Poems on the Telephone 
Five American Poets 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
States of Happiness 
Book of Mercy 
This Changes Things 
This Is Yarrow 
Counting Backwards 
The Moon Before Morning 
On the Road 
Dog Poems 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One