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Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil
  • Published: 15 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781910701126
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99
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Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil

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30 Sept 2011
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15 May 2015
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A collection of contemporary poetry that throws itself into the discussion of Irish identity in relation to the world.

WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Paul Durcan has been at the heart of Irish cultural life for over 40 years and his poetry has acquired a huge international following. Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil is his most challenging and engaging collection yet, one that addresses itself through Ireland and the Irish diaspora to the whole world beyond.
  • Published: 15 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781910701126
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944. His first book, Endsville (1967), was followed by more than twenty others, including The Berlin Wall Café (a Poetry Book Society Choice in 1985), Daddy, Daddy (winner of the Whitbread Award for Poetry in 1990), Crazy About Women (1991), A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems (1993), Give Me Your Hand (1994), Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil (1999), The Art of Life (2004), The Laughter of Mothers (2007), Life is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems 1967–2007 (2009), Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have My Being (2012), and The Days of Surprise (2015). In 2001 Paul Durcan received a Cholmondeley Award. He was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2004 to 2007. He was conferred with a DLitt by Trinity College Dublin in 2009 and by University College Dublin in 2011. In 2014 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Irish Book Award. He was a member of Aosdána.

portrait photo of Paul Durcan

Also by Paul Durcan

80 at 80
The Days of Surprise
Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have my Being
Life is a Dream
The Laughter of Mothers
The Art Of Life
O Westport In The Light Of Asia Minor
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Praise for Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil

Durcan’s must be the most capacious and generous mind in contemporary poetry: in the face of the rabid and murderous dark he finds always something or someone to celebrate

Theo Dorgan, Sunday Tribute

Paul Durcan’s Ireland is the one we inhabit. At times he is ready to celebrate the bizarre amd the ordinary; at other times he is full of a surreal rage against both order and disorder

Colm Toibin, Times Literary Supplement