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    A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes
    A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes
    A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes
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    A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes

    By Gerald Dawe

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    The third and final volume in Gerald Dawe’s acclaimed ‘Northern Chronicles’ series, following on from In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast and Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, A City Imagined explores the unique atmosphere of Belfast and its writers, who inspired Gerald Dawe’s writing career.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMerrion Press
    Release dateJul 7, 2021
    ISBN9781785373954
    A City Imagined: Belfast Soulscapes
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    Gerald Dawe

    Gerald Dawe is an Irish poet and Professor Emeritus and Fellow, Trinity College Dublin. He has published nine volumes of poetry including Lake Geneva (2003), Points West (2008), Selected Poems (2012) and Mickey Finn’s Air (2014). He has also edited Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry, 1914–1945 (2008) and the Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets (2018) and published several books of literary essays including Of War and War’s Alarms (2015) and In AnotherWorld: Van Morrison and Belfast (2017). He lives in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

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