Earth Voices Whispering by Gerald Dawe
From the upheaval of the 1916 Rising to the Spanish Civil War, to the horrors of WW2, Earth Voices Whispering gathers together a wide range of voices that charts the human experience of war. Featuring AE, W.B Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and many more.an important book, full of despair, but also a humanity that might mollify it
-- Bernard O'Donoghue
Gerald Dawe was educated at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and the National University of Ireland, Galway.
A Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, he is Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing and senior lecturer in the School of English at TCD.
His seven collections of poetry include The Lundys Letter, Sunday School and Points West. His Selected Poems was published in 2012. He has also published a volume of collected criticism, The Proper Word; a memoir, My Mother-City; and a number of anthologies, including Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry, 1914–1945.He was the John J. Burns Visiting Professor at Boston College and Charles Heimbold Professor in Irish Studies at Villanova University, Philadelphia.
He lives in County Dublin. www.gerald-dawe.net www.facebook.com/Gerald.Dawe
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| ISBN 13 | 9780856408229 |
| ISBN 10 | 0856408220 |
| Title | Earth Voices Whispering |
| Author | Gerald Dawe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Colourpoint Creative Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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