Once Was A Boy by Theo Dorgan #PBSChristmas the role of language

the role of language

following European literary trends rather than domestic poetic traditions

' The poet in small things

the purpose of which is to draw the reader closer to God by enabling a fuller experience of scripture

Eliot Prize and the Griffin International Prize

Once Was A Boy by Theo Dorgan #PBSChristmas the role of languageThe bells that break on the morning air at the opening of Theo Dorgans new collection of poems signal both the beginning of an ordinary day in his native Cork, but also a return to his time as a schoolboy there, a time and place made extraordinary by the attention and focus of a youngster beginning to make sense of the world, and, in particular, learning the weight and power of language (The words are awkward, shaping themselves in my head, testing