By Pádraig J Daly

The Last Dreamers

The Last Dreamers: New and Selected Poems draws on Pádraig J. Daly’s first five collections, both from Dedalus and the Profile Press.

Description

Originally published in 1999, this reissue of The Last Dreamers: New and Selected Poems draws on Pádraig J Daly’s first five collections, both from Dedalus and the Profile Press.

“Distinguished work which deserves wide acclaim” — Acumen

“The best kind of religious poetry” — Ambit


ISBN 9781904556909 Paperback
140 x 216 mm, 150 pp
1999, reissued 2008

Product Detail

  • ISBN: : 9781904556909
  • Size: : 216 x 140 mm
  • Pages: : 150 pp
  • Published: : 1999, reissued 2008

About The Author

Author

Pádraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford in 1943 and works as an Augustinian priest in Dublin. He has published several collections of poetry, among them The Last Dreamers: New & Selected Poems (1999), The Other Sea (2003), Afterlife (2010) and God in Winter (2015). His translations include a selection from the Italian of Edoardo Sanguineti, Libretto (1999), which feature in The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry, and Paolo Ruffilli's Joy and Mourning (reissued 2007), among others. Daly comments: "I write poetry as a way of understanding, questioning and celebrating God and the world." “Daly offers the most sustained attempt at serious religious poetry in Ireland and the distinct pleasure of the exquisite use of language.” — John F. Deane