{"title":"Theo Dorgan","description":"Theo Dorgan is a poet, prose writer, editor, scriptwriter, translator and sailor. His other books include the long poem \u003cem\u003eSappho's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, his prose account of a transatlantic voyage under sail, \u003cem\u003eSailing for Home\u003c\/em\u003e, praised by Doris Lessing as \"a book for everyone\", and, in 2007, \u003cem\u003eA Book of Uncommon Prayer\u003c\/em\u003e, which he compiled and edited. He is the editor of \u003cem\u003eIrish Poetry Since Kavanagh\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eLeabhar Mór nah Éireann \/ The Great Book of Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAn Leabhar Mór \/ The Great Book of Gaelic\u003c\/em\u003e, the anthology \u003cem\u003eWatching the River Flow\u003c\/em\u003e and the acclaimed collection of historical essays \u003cem\u003eRevising the Rising\u003c\/em\u003e. His translations of the Slovenian poet Barbara Korun (in collaboration with the poet and Ana Jelnikar), were published as \u003cem\u003eSongs of Earth and Light\u003c\/em\u003e. He translates from the Irish and from the French and his own work has appeared in Italian and Spanish editions. He is a member of Aosdána.\n","products":[{"product_id":"honouring-the-word-celebrating-maurice-harmon","title":"Honouring the Word: Celebrating Maurice Harmon","description":"This special tribute book celebrates Maurice Harmon on his 80th birthday and features poems from some of Ireland's most famous modern poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a Foreword by Christopher Murray, Emeritus Professor, University College Dublin and Joseph Woods, director of \u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The critic and poet Maurice Harmon is one of the most gracious figures on the scene, so it wasn’t surprising to see the literati turn out in force for his 80th-birthday celebration in Dublin... What was surprising was that he now has eight decades behind him, because Harmon has the appearance of perennial youth. Fittingly, Christopher Murray, a colleague from UCD, where Harmon taught poetry for decades, reminded the throng that we were also celebrating the talents of a man still very much in harness. 'Maurice’s own work as a poet is an extension of his work as a life-long lover of and commentator on poetry, especially Irish poetry from earliest times to the present.'...\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, June 2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to being a poet, \u003cb\u003eMaurice Harmon\u003c\/b\u003e is the leading scholar-critic of his generation in the field of Anglo-Irish Literature. He pioneered its development as an academic discipline and is the author of a number of significant works, from a basic bibliographical guide to headline studies of Seán O’Faoláin, Austin Clarke, Thomas Kinsella, and others. He edited the definitive anthology \u003ci\u003eIrish Poetry after Yeats\u003c\/i\u003e (1978, 1998) and published \u003ci\u003eThe Dialogue of the Ancients of Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), a new translation of Acallam na Senórach. 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Here is a big book of many poems, all inspired, devoted, motivated by a sacred bond that happens, the supreme privilege, that something far bigger than romance - a relationship with a dog. Dogs do sing; they also smile, socialise, engage and celebrate, mark a homecoming in proper style, even if it’s only the return from the local grocery store; they sigh, but most of all they understand, they grieve, they mourn, they empathise, they remember...\"\u003cbr\u003eEileen Battersby, Arts Writer \u0026amp; Literary Correspondent, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish?Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessie Lendennie\u003c\/b\u003e's prose poem \u003ci\u003eDaughter\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1988, followed in 1990 by \u003ci\u003eThe Salmon Guide to Poetry Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1992 by \u003ci\u003eThe Salmon Guide to Creative Writing in Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e. 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