Portobello Sonnets

$12.95

Harry Clifton, who divides his life between Ireland and elsewhere, is widely considered a bridge between younger and older Irish poets. This new volume, Portobello Sonnets, provides further evidence of his pivotal position. Portobello, the district in Dublin where he lives, is a microcosm of a changing, cosmopolitan Ireland. These sonnets, written on his return from sixteen years in continental Europe, are at once a celebration of place, a coming to terms with age, and a rediscovering of the universal in the local.

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Praise for Portobello Sonnets:

“In [Portobello Sonnets], there is a contrapuntal sense of place and placelessness so characteristic of Clifton’s work.” –Benjamin Keatinge, breac

“…his voice in Portobello Sonnets claims a poetic authority as willed, as unambiguous, as James Clarence Mangan’s.” –Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Dublin Review of Books