| | | | Famous for his electrifying poetry readings, Paul Durcan recently marked four decades of composing silently and reciting aloud with the magnificent collection Life is a Dream which brings together for the first time the critically acclaimed poet’s own choice of his work from his first book, Endsville (1967) to The Laughter of Mothers (2007).
Life is a Dream represents the whole, vast range of Durcan’s writing; hilarious and subversive verse narratives and self-mocking poems of underachievement, poems celebrating love and sex or the lives of famous writers and artists, as well as tender, poignant verses commemorating the dead.
Throughout his long career, Durcan has continued to make passionate and moving poetry out of his own and his country’s misfortunes. Watching Paul Durcan perform reaffirms the constant vision and artistic integrity of one of the most powerful, humane and original voices in modern poetry. | | | | | |
