Gerald Dawe

In Another World is a unique trip through Belfast, mapped into the mystic through the timeless music of Van ‘the Man’ Morrison. The aptly soulful and inventive prose stems from the electric wit of acclaimed poet and fellow Belfast man, Gerald Dawe. Struck by the extraordinary brand of rhythm and blues that was Morrison’s brainchild, Dawe’s book is a celebration of the inspirations that underlie Morrison’s music. Silhouetted in the work is Belfast, moody and vibrant, and the formative influence of the pre-Troubles northern capital on Morrison’s musical direction. Dawe’s writing transmutes the tender and unforgettable strains of Morrison’s work, from the release in 1968 of Astral Weeks to the publication in 2014 of Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics. A powerful tribute to mark Van Morrison’s accomplishments, In Another World taps into his legacy’s eclectic soul and is kin to its enchantments.

Van Morrison & Belfast

In Another World

This engaging, personal chronicle by Irish poet Gerald Dawe explores the lives and times of leading Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Stewart Parker, alongside lesser-known names from the earlier decades of the twentieth century, such as Ethna Carberry, Alice Milligan, Joseph Campbell and George Reavey. It also portrays the changing cultural backgrounds of the author’s contemporaries, such as Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin, Colm Tóibín, Leontia Flynn and Sinéad Morrissey. Gerald Dawe presents an accessible view of modern Irish literature, filtered perceptively through his own distinctive lens, and raises important questions about cultural belonging, the commercialisation of contemporary writing, and the influence of Irish literary culture in a digital age. In this lyrical exploration of national identity, The Wrong Country repositions our understanding of modern Irish writing in a wider context for today’s readers.

Essays on Modern Irish Writing

The Wrong Country

Michael Mulreany

An Anthology of Contemporary Ireland

The Ogham Stone

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primarily at lovers of poetry, it examines a wide range of poets, including household names, such as Jonathan Swift, Thomas Moore, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh, Eavan Boland and Paul Muldoon. The book is comprised of thirty chapters written by critics, leading scholars and poets, who bring an authoritative and accessible understanding to their subjects. Each chapter gives an overview of a poet's work and guides the general reader through the wider cultural, historical and comparative contexts. Exploring the dual traditions of English and Irish-speaking poets, this Companion represents the very best of Irish poetry and highlights understanding that reveals, in clear and accessible prose, the achievement of Irish poetry in a global context. It is a book that will help and guide general readers through the many achievements of Irish poets.

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets

The State of Poetry

Jonathan Williams

An Anthology of Modern Irish Writing

Krino, 1986-1996

This collection of literary views and interviews illuminates the coming of age of Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe during his five decades long career in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and his travels around the world.

Views & Interviews

Catching the Light

John Wilson Foster

Ulster Literature and Society : Essays in Honour of John Hewitt, 1907-87

The Poet's Place

Padraic Fiacc

Selected Poems

Ruined Pages

Gathering together over three hundred poems by writers, this anthology records the thoughts and experiences of Ireland's poets as soldiers, observers, protestors, and mourners.

An Anthology of Irish War Poetry, 1914-1945

Earth Voices Whispering

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

Poems and Paintings from the West of Ireland

Crossing the Sound

Gerald Dawe

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