Ruined Pages: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Fiacc, Padraic

Dawe, Gerald

Poetry

Blackstaff Pr

Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945

In the first half of the 20th century, the men and women of Ireland experienced the brutal realities of a succession of wars – from the unrelenting casualties of WW1, to the domestic upheavals of the 1916 Rising and the Irish Civil War; from the romantic idealism of the Spanish Civil War, to the unimaginable horrors of WW2.Earth Voices Whispering gathers together, for the very first time, a wide range of poetic voices that chart the human experiences of these wars, compiled and edited by Belfast-born poet and senior lecturer in Trinity College Dublin, Gerald Dawe. Featuring over three hundred poems by celebrated poets such as C.S Lewis, AE, W.B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney, and including new poems by Derek Mahon and Eilean Ní Chuilleanain, the anthology records the thoughts and experiences of poets as soldiers, patriots, observers, protestors, medics and mourners.From patriotism to anger, passion to compassion, hope to regret, this groundbreaking new anthology embraces the complex reality of a rich, unique and historically overlooked period in Irish poetry.

Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914–45

Genre Fiction

Blackstaff Press

Signed by the author on ffep, with dedication and also on title page

The Lundys Letter

GALLERY BOOKS

Of War and War's Alarms is a unique study of war and revolution and their impact on the writing lives of Irish poets and novelists from WWI and the Easter Rising through the War of Independence to the Spanish Civil War, WWII and the Northern "Troubles." These timely reflections on literature in wartime include such figures as W. B. Yeats, Thomas MacGreevy, Seamus Heaney along with Francis Ledwidge, Charles Donnelly and Padraic Fiacc, Benedict Kiely, William Trevor, John Hewitt and Christabel Bielenberg.

Of War and War's Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing

British & Irish

Cork University Press

<p>"In Another World" is a unique trip through the music scene of 1950s and 60s Belfast, mapped 'into the mystic' through the timeless lyrics of Van 'the Man' Morrison. The aptly soulful and poetic prose are written with the electric wit of acclaimed poet, fellow Belfast man, and former Orangefield classmate of Van's, Gerald Dawe. Blown away by Morrison's unique and explosive brand of raw R'nB energy infused with lyrics evoking the Belfast of his youth, Dawe has written this extraordinary book as a compass for the inspirations that underlie Morrison's spine-tingling blend of 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. Conceived as a powerful tribute to Van Morrison's extraordinary accomplishments, "In Another World" taps into his legacy's soul, and is kin to its enchantments. A timeless and memorable gift for any Van Morrison fan. [Subject: Music Studies, Music History, Irish Studies, History, Van Morrison]</p>

In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast

Arts & Photography

Music

Merrion Press

<p>Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, the sequel to renowned Belfast poet and author Gerald Dawe's critically acclaimed In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast, is the evocative record of the musical, literary and artistic influences that inspired and forged Dawe's awakening as a poet, and his career in Irish literature.Taking its bearings from Belfast in the 1960s, The Beatles' Rubber Soul album and the energising shock of reading the great American poets Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, Dawe's wry and engaging style has produced a telling record of the music, poetry and culture of growing up in the northern capital.Featuring the stunning photography of Euan Gëbler, this literary memoir is a must-have for fans of Dawe's work, a superb introduction to his world for new readers, and, in his own words, may help 'renew Belfast and the ordinary life and lives of the city, and allow its people to overcome as best they can the seemingly irreconcilable and unsolvable conflicts of the past'.</p>

Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

<p><div><i>In Another World</i> 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 underline 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 <i>Astral Weeks</i> to the publication in 2014 of <i>Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics</i>. A powerful tribute to mark Van Morrison's accomplishments, <i>In Another World</i> taps into his legacy's eclectic soul and is kin to its enchantments.</div></p>

Arts & Literature

Irish Academic Press

<p><p><i>A City Imagined</i>&nbsp;is a paean to the city of Belfast and its writers. Written in his highly regarded wry and lyrical style, Dawe's memoir sketches the outlines of his life as he starts to understand the city in which he was born, before embracing some of the local writers whose early work had such an influential part in nudging him in the direction of writing-- poets, in the main, whose first books were read with the enthusiasm of a young man beguiled by the language and music of poetry.</p> <p>Building on the critical acclaim of&nbsp;<i>In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Looking Through You,</i>&nbsp;this third and final volume of the Northern Chronicles trilogy completes a fascinating and rich portrait of the celebrated poet's tangled and ever-evolving relationship with his native city.</p></p>

A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes (Northern Chronicles)

<p><div>This engagingly personal chronicle by poet Gerald Dawe explores the lives and times of leading Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bowen, Patrick Kavanagh, James Plunkett, John McGahern, Stewart Parker and Leontia Flynn, alongside lesser-known names from the earlier decades of the twentieth century, such as Ethna Carberry, Alice Milligan, Joseph Campbell and George Reavey. <i>The Wrong Country</i> also portrays the changing cultural backgrounds of the author's contemporaries, such as Thomas Kilroy, Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Colm Tóibín,&nbsp;Hugo Hamilton, Sinead Morrissey and Michelle O'Sullivan.<br /> <br /> Gerald Dawe presents an accessible and jargon-free view of modern Irish literature, filtered perceptively through his own, warmly personal, lens, and raises important questions about cultural belonging, the commercialisation of contemporary writing, and the influence of Irish literary culture in a digital age, to reposition our understanding of Irish writing in a wider context for today's readers.</div></p>

The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing

<p><div><i>The Sound of the Shuttle</i> is an eloquent and compelling selection of essays written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring the difficult and at times neglected territory of cultural belonging and northern Protestantism. The title, taken from a letter of John Keats during a journey through the north-east in 1818, evokes the lives, now erased from history, of the thousands of workers in the linen industry, tobacco factories and shipyards of Belfast. Sketching in literary, social and political contexts to widen the frame of reference, Dawe offers fascinating insights into the current debate about a 'New Ireland' by bringing into critical focus the experiences, beliefs and achievements of a sometimes maligned and often misread community, generally referred to as Northern protestants. In making the telling point that 'The jagged edges of the violent past are still locked within ideological vices', The Sound of the Shuttle is an insightful and honest report based upon many years of creative and critical practice. This is an essential book for our changing times.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div></p>

The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays on Cultural Belonging & Protestantism in Northern Ireland

World Literature

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Ruined Pages: Selected Poems

Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914–45

The Lundys Letter

Of War and War's Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing

In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast

Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles

In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast

A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes (Northern Chronicles)

The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing

The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays on Cultural Belonging & Protestantism in Northern Ireland