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Sat 03 Mar 2010Always rooted within
ESSAYS: DERMOT BOLGERreviews The World as Province: selected Prose 1980-2008by Gerald Dawe, Lagan Press, 222pp, £12.99
SINCE HIS first appearance in a book – under the briefly used name GC Dawe – as among the youngest poets featured in David Marcus’s Irish Poets 1924-1974, Gerald Dawe has been a constantly alert and probing presence within Irish poetry, both as the author of seven volumes of lyrically taut and yet wonderfully expansive verse and also as an astute literary critic with his antenna tuned into the exactitudes of local experience and their universal counterpoints.
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