By Paul Durcan
ISBN-10: 1846559715
ISBN-13: 9781846559716
Paul Durcan by no means imagined he will be clasped through a lady back, yet existence is filled with surprises! finally, would it not shock you to profit that on the US Ambassador’s place of dwelling in Dublin his libido virtually destroyed the Peace procedure? there's a new Pope, too, a ‘man of continuous surprise’, even supposing in St Peter’s sq. Durcan encounters a monk entirely missing within the Holy Spirit.
Elsewhere he muses upon the ‘pre-crucifixion state of affairs’ of being ready for surgical procedure, the reward of a malacca cane, the enjoyment of retail treatment, the horror that's wheel-clamping, the ‘starry mystique’ of the elements forecaster Jean Byrne, suicide, bird-watching, stammering, paintings, Mayo, long island urban, New Zealand, homicide in Syria and the commemoration of 1916. possibly the best shock is the voice of the past due Seamus Heaney coming down his chimney: ‘Are you okay down there, Poet Durcan?’ The Days of Surprise is evidence that the nice poet of latest eire is in superb fettle.
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