Description:
Fitzmaurice celebrates love, grief and joy, people and place, faith, family and friends in visionary, durable and deceptively simple poems.
Brief description: Gabriel Fitzmaurice, born in 1952 in Moyvane, Co Kerry, Ireland, is a retired teacher, principal, poet, broadcaster, writer, translator, singer, and raconteur. Author of over forty books, including poetry collections in English and Irish, as well as children's verse, he has been compared to Burns for his insight and lyricism. A former chair and literary advisor of Listowel Writers' Week, he hosts his own show on Kerry Radio and is a committee member of Éigse Michael Hartnett.
Review Quotes: 'The selection is breath-taking, literally, there is no pause, the diversity of the poems is amazing, and each poem is masterpiece in its own right, whether a witty epigram or a ballad or a lyric one. Absolutely beautiful.' -Győző Ferencz