The Anchorage
$33.35
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2025
Summary
The Anchorage: Poems of Memory and Place
Poetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us.
Bernard O’Donoghue investigates the idea of anchorage as a place we build for ourselves out of memory and story. The Ireland of his youth is rich in colour and precise in detail, and while he acknowledges the power of the past, he also brings it into question: ‘I wish I’d never started on this story;/It may have been a dream, or maybe not …’
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571387939 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571387934 |
| Author: | Bernard O'Donoghue |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 92g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
“O’Donoghue’s poems are an object lesson in how to write poetry that matters.” - PN Review
“The poignancy of O’Donoghue’s migratory imagination is … the perfect travelling companion.” - TLS
“Compelling and simple diction … full of gentle, sometimes undetectable flashes of humour.” - London Magazine
“As with everything O’Donoghue writes, the more you look, the more you see.” - Scotsman
About The Author
Bernard O'Donoghue
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co Cork in 1945. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. He has published six collections of poetry, including Gunpowder, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and The Seasons of Cullen Church, shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize. His Selected Poems was published by Faber in 2008. He has published a verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and is currently translating Piers Plowman for Faber.
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