The Anchorage by Bernard O'Donoghue Liverpool University Press Songs of uprising

Songs of uprising

one grief-stricken soul descends into a watery underworld whilst another experiences love as demonic possession…

three months later

food as home

All of the modern poets who have long preoccupied Vendler—Wallace Stevens

The Anchorage by Bernard O'Donoghue Liverpool University Press Songs of uprisingPublished 5th June 2025. Poetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us. Bernard O'Donoghue investigates the idea of anchorage as a place we build for ourselves out of memory and story. The Ireland of his youth is rich in colour and precise in detail, and while he acknowledges the power of the past, he also brings it into question: "I wish I'd never started on this story; It may have been a dream, or maybe not . . .' O'Donoghue's