EAN 9781846550249

Famous for his electrifying poetry readings, Paul Durcan marks four decades of composing silently and reciting aloud with this magnificent collection, 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 range of Durcan's writing - funny 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.