WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny
edition in Dublin in 1975. It was Paul Durcan's first fully-fledged
collection, and already displays an astonishingly mature, visionary
power, shot through with the surrealism and heart-breaking comedy that
have since become his hallmark. It won him the Patrick Kavanagh Award.
Now Durcan's readers can discover what they have been missing. The poems
are printed in the order he originally intended, and the volume
concluded with six poems from his very first collaborative collection,
Endsville (1967), with Brian Lynch.