O'Connor lauds Grafton Street poet

The writer Ulick O'Connor has compared the work of the late Grafton Street poet, Christopher Daybell, to that of the French poet…

The writer Ulick O'Connor has compared the work of the late Grafton Street poet, Christopher Daybell, to that of the French poet Baudelaire. He was speaking in Dublin at the launch of a posthumous collection of Daybell's work in Dublin.

The collection, The Man With the Crowded Eye, represented the best of Daybell's work from 1989 until his death last year, said its editor, Kate O'Shea.

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