A01=Paul Durcan
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
animals
anthology
Author_Paul Durcan
automatic-update
british history
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DCF
celtic
collection
comedy
coming of age
COP=United Kingdom
culture
death
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
english literature
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_poetry
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
great britain
holiday
jewish
Language_English
letters
literary fiction
memory
modernism
nature
PA=Available
penguin classics
picture books
plays
poem
poems
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
school
softlaunch
victorian
ww2
Product details
- ISBN 9781910701119
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 96g
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2015
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
This was the collection with which Durcan broke through to the huge and appreciative audience he enjoys today. In the first part are poems of great satirical comedy and also of great passion and indignation, and in the second part, poems about the break-up of a marriage so intense they would hurt if they weren't also possessed of the healing gifts of truthfulness and humour. In The Berlin Wall Café Durcan has located that space between the walls and barriers societies and individuals erect - a no-man's-land of the free imagination where we meet as the vulnerable and comical human beings we are. It contains some of his very best work.
Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944. His first book, Endsville (1967), has been 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 is a member of Aosdána.
