Paul Durcan is one of the most dramatically intense modern Irish poets. Drawing its strength from its urgent treatment of a wide range of contemporary subject matter.
In Daddy, Daddy Durcan pushes out in a radical new direction. Fusing the personal with the political, his angry response to violence and oppression in poems such as “The Murder of Harry Keyes” and “Shanghai, June 1989” is incisive and humane.
Durcan’s poetry is compelling in its probing artistry and painful honesty.