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    At Home in Ireland
    At Home in Ireland
    At Home in Ireland
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    At Home in Ireland

    By Arthur Broomfield

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    Dr Arthur Broomfield’s Selected Poems marks a milestone in the celebrated career of the County Laois writer and Beckett scholar. His recent work, Ireland Calling, has reached almost every town in Ireland and has been acclaimed in USA, Australia and Canada. His work has been ‘Highly Commended’ in the Patrick Kavanagh poetry awards, 2015. He is the recipient of the prestigious SETU certificate of appreciation, 2022 ‘for blazing a new trail in poetry by innovating language and bringing newer sensibilities, for mentoring young poets and a dedicated Beckett scholarship.’
    Dr Broomfield is Poetry Ireland Poet Laureate of Mountmellick.

    French philosopher Jacque Derrida has said that literature is the genre where we can say anything, and by this, and so many other definitions, these poems are literature of the highest order. — Dr Eugene O'Brien, Head of the Department of English Language and Literature in Mary Immaculate College.

    Broomfield is a humorous purveyor of personal truths about himself and the society in which he finds himself, whether on his way for a vasectomy or challenging unassailed positions within artistic and political life. By turns cool and spirited, his is a poetic vision which constantly questions, surprises and challenges. We should welcome it. — Mary O’Donnell, poet and writer.

    If there is a recurring theme to Broomfield’s poetry it is in his resistance to ideology in any manifestation that threatens the freedoms he insists are his rights... (from the Introduction) — Dr Clare Bolger, Author, academic and literary theorist.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLimerick Writers Centre
    Release dateNov 21, 2023
    ISBN9798215824665
    At Home in Ireland
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    Arthur Broomfield

    Dr Arthur Broomfield is a poet, novelist, publisher and Beckett scholar from County Laois. His previous works include When the Dust Settles (International University Press) The Poetry Reading at Semple Stadium (Lapwing), The Empty Too: language and philosophy in the works of Samuel Beckett (Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing) and Mice at the Threshing (Lapwing). He is editor of the online poetry journal Outburst, and delivers occasional lectures on the works of Samuel Beckett. A Room of One’s Own is his first full collection.

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