Life is a Dream
40 Years Reading Poems 1967-2007
- Published: 1 June 2011
- ISBN: 9781409016205
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 608
Paul Durcan's Ireland is the one we inhabit. At times he is ready to celebrate the bizarre and the ordinary; at other times he is full of a surreal rage against both order and disorder.
Colm Tóibín, Times Literary Supplement
To have heard him read adds another pleasure to the reading of his work - but the voice speaks clearly on the page in poems of harrowing intimacy, politics and love
Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian
Durcan is a God. He can break your heart in supermarket or petrol station. He is unafraid, masterful and exactly what this world needs more of: wild abandon, wild love and sheer mad genius.
Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones
Paul Durcan's poetry sings
Roger McGough
The world is all the richer for this man's verse.
Irish Independent
Life is a Dream finally presents the evidence of major artistic achievement in a single, unified text.
Harry Clifton, Irish Times