Michael O'Neill's Return of the Gift is a volume about what is given and what is lost. Writing unsentimentally and with insight about powerful subjects such as the death of his mother, caring for his father, and his own recent diagnosis of cancer, the poet speaks of and to his personal and historical life and also explores themes of elegy and friendship. Memories are woven vividly throughout a thematically varied yet coherent collection, in which a witty and moving pleasure in living and language is always to the fore.
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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 02 Apr 2018
Publisher: Arc Publications
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781911469469
About Michael O'Neill
Michael ONeill was born in Aldershot in 1953 and moved to Liverpool in 1960. He read English at Exeter College Oxford and from 1979 he lectured in English at Durham University where he was Professor of English and Assistant Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics. He co-founded and co-edited Poetry Durham from 1982 to 1994. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1983 for his poetry and a Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 1990. His four previous collections of poems are The Stripped Bed (Collins Harvill 1990) Wheel (Arc 2008) Gangs of Shadow (Arc 2014) and Return of the Gift (Arc 2018). Michael ONeill died in December 2018 leaving a wife and two children.