Farmers Cross
By (Author) Bernard O'Donoghue
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2011
16th June 2011
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
821.914
Paperback
64
Width 130mm, Height 200mm, Spine 5mm
100g
The book brings together subtle and moving meditations on exile and belonging, travel and home, and honours many friends and loved ones along the way. In a series of poems that frequently recall the south-west Ireland of the author's childhood, Farmers Cross shows the author writing at his visionary and lyrical best.
Bernard O'Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co. Cork in 1945. He is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, where he teaches Medieval English. He has published four collections of poetry, The Weakness (1991), Gunpowder winner of the 1995 Whitbread Award for Poetry), Here Nor There (1999) and Outliving (2003). His Selected Poems was published in 2008.