Book description
Tom Paulin's first collection since The Road to Inver in 2004,
Love's Bonfire sets poems about early life and marriage beside
up-to-the minute and minutely registered perceptions of
post-settlement Ireland. At the book's centre are delicately inward
versions of the contemporary Palestinian poet Walid Khazendar, which
resonate with the proximity of other lives, other exiles and
destinies, as of an autobiography by other means.
Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and
was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published
eight collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two
major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical
works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical
Style and, most recently, Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent.
His most recent collection of poems is The Road to Inver (2004). Well
known for his appearances on the BBC's Newsnight Review, he is also
the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.
