Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have my Being by Paul Durcan

Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have my Being by Paul DurcanPaul Durcan's twenty second collection finds Monsieur le Poete on the road in Paris, New York City, Chicago, Brisbane, and Achill Island, meditating upon the sanctuary of home and what it means to feel truly at home. Regarded by many as the great poet of contemporary Ireland, Durcan is on top form here as he contemplates the fall of the Celtic Tiger, while railing against bankers and 'bonus boys'. There are poems of love lost and won, and poems in

Pearl's uncle

'A blistering account of that twilit zone of early motherhood'JANE FEAVER

" In doing so

Expectation keeps you starry

'Wars are not won by evacuations''We can take it

Jane has become the godmother to a new generation of climate activists

with a sharp focus on sexual politics

astonishingly moving debut - and a true global phenomenon - to read in one sitting

From the first line Your son is trying to kill you

where she lived for six years

exquisitely illustrated portrait

Drawing on hitherto unseen archival material