Waistband and Other Poems

Waistband and Other Poems

by Donny O ' Rourke (Author)

Synopsis

Donny O'Rourke's poetry has a jazzy, upbeat note to it, with the strains of Ireland and America in the background. There are more reflective poems on parents, grief, loss, renewal, and losing weight (or not). O'Rourke's self-deprecating style is appealing, moving from one sensibility to the next, and concerned with the acts of giving and receiving, transmitting culture, ideas and thoughts. This is a wide and generous poetry.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Published: 20 Oct 1997

ISBN 10: 0748662324
ISBN 13: 9780748662326

Media Reviews
Author reading scheduled for October as part of Scottish Book Fortnight; Reviews scheduled for TLS, Independent, Scotsman, Herald, Poetry Review and Poetry Now; Polygon Poets Promotion to bookshops - October/November. POS available and special discounts for `sets' bought and sold.
Author Bio
Donny O'Rourke was born in Port Glasgow in 1959. After working in arts television he took some time off to write and is now Writer-in-Residence at Glasgow and Strathclyde universities. His first collection, Second Cities, was published by Vennel Press in 1991 and he edited the influential Dream State: the New Scottish Poets in 1994.