Honouring the Word: Celebrating Maurice Harmon Jane Draycott

Honouring the Word: Celebrating Maurice Harmon Jane DraycottThis special tribute book celebrates Maurice Harmon on his 80th birthday and features poems from some of Ireland's most famous modern poets. With a Foreword by Christopher Murray, Emeritus Professor, University College Dublin and Joseph Woods, director of Poetry Ireland. "The critic and poet Maurice Harmon is one of the most gracious figures on the scene, so it wasnt surprising to see the literati turn out in force for his 80th birthday celebration in

Once a renowned artist

Abdu Khal – Excerpt from the novel Clay

Reading these poems is like a holiday of the best kind: eye-opening

a compelling cocktail of ideas and imagination

Eternity humming from its dark source

inner and outer worlds

The Netherlands in 1956

It includes articles

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reminiscent of such powerful masters as Cézanne or the African-American painter Beauford Delaney

This tri-lingual approach is an attempt to represent the cultural and linguistic concerns which both Ireland and Galicia have shared historically

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