This is part of the living form of enchantment he wants to create, an enchantment where fixed representations move again and talk, where things and people are constantly metamorphosed. 12As is often the case in the rest of Paul Durcan’s work, the apparently blasphemous notion consisting in transforming Jesus Christ into a woman is not a way of calling into question the poet’s Catholic faith, but of denouncing what is truly blasphemous and obscene: here, the atrocities that have been committed in the name of God in the Magdalene Laundries. Ark of the North, Raven Arts Press (Dublin, Ireland), 1982. Part of his strength is his openness to life and art, low and high, to politics and philosophy, his awareness that in the poetry world dullness and vanity are more common than excitement and truth." But the palimpsest is not only composed of pictorial representations. Durcan is "adept at drawing meaning out of the fugitive situation of poetry reading in more than a simply melodramatic sense," stated Foden. The result of this request and of the poet’s passion for painting is a book made up of forty-seven poems printed along with the reproductions of the forty-nine works of art that inspired them. To illustrate these issues (widespread misogyny and a full-scale TV uprising) Durcan utiliz... Sign in or sign up in order to view resources on iRevise, Sign In He met Nessa O'Neill in 1967; they married and had two daughters, Sarah and Siabhra. ", A selection of Durcan's old and new material forms the collection A Snail in My Prime.

“out of [his] experience” of the works of art he selected (Durcan 1991, x). “In as much as I was driving up a mountain slope on Achill Island when I accidentally touched the dials on the radio of the car. ", Durcan won the prestigious Whitbread Poetry Prize for Daddy, Daddy.

The theme of surprise runs as a golden thread through the book. She therefore both defines herself as an incarnate human female body and as a rood, a cross, a crucifix. 5, l. 30, 32). Thanks to the palimpsest effect created by intratextuality, we can make out the father’s hermaphrodite figure in Gene Lambert’s, beneath the crucified representation of the daughter. Brownjohn concluded that "Durcan's following will be pleased that this wildly original poet is still going a bit too far. Durcan's verbal deftness is also demonstrated in the collection, as Foden noted, when the poet writes, "One was alone in the pit of oneself, knitting needles." Although Durcan has been publishing poetry since the late 1960s, he earned widespread critical acclaim with The Selected Paul Durcan, a collection of poems from four earlier volumes, including Teresa's Bar and Jesus, Break His Fall. AWARDS, HONORS: Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, 1974; Poetry Book Society choice, 1985, for The Berlin Wall Café; Irish Arts Council grants for creative writing, 1976 and 1980-81; Whitbread Poetry Prize, Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, c. 1990, for Daddy, Daddy. It is the job of the poet, a craftsperson, but also, somehow, an alchemist. 11The grotesque dimension conveyed by the hairs on her upper lip contrasts with, and echoes, the humorous presentation of her legs in the previous stanza: “are my legs / Not sheer as nylon stockings in glossy advertisements?” (Durcan 1991, 5, l. 16-17).The tensions between humour and gravity as well as those between the original Passion and its contemporary Irish version are a source of intensity. Stand, autumn, 1991, p. 82; spring, 1994, review of A Snail in My Prime, p. 39. Women's Journal, December, 1994, review of Give Me Your Hand, p. 18. Durcan, Paul. The reviewer said that the poet "has a way of delivering his words which make them sound astonishingly musical and brilliantly, aptly chosen," but "those same words, curiously, fail to ignite" on the printed page. Le martyre veut être un simple index qui montre vers le vrai Dieu.”. Complete Review,http://www.complete-review.com/ (July 24, 2002), review of A Snail in My Prime. In covering the past with words and images in “The Crucifixion”, Paul Durcan creates a complex ekphrastic palimpsest to try to recover from his own past. Moreover, with the image of the “badger’s jaws” in the first stanza of “The Crucifixion”, we can see the crocodile in Gene Lambert’s First Love appear. The Irish poet is recognized for his work criticizing his country's social and religious institutions. 25The daughter in the poem also brutally expresses her desire for movement, for leaving the representation: “Throw out the window / Your pretty shrew” (Durcan 7, l. 54-55). It suggests a court of justice, a place of power, and here the daughter is a victim of her father’s law or decision.

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