Being Dragged Across the Carpet by the Cat
by Dónall Dempsey
(Third edition)
is available to buy from this page.
by Dónall Dempsey
(Third edition)
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This third edition of "Being Dragged Across the Carpet by the Cat" comprises 91 poems and prose pieces by Dónall Dempsey. It includes all of the poems from the first and second editions of "Being Dragged Across the Carpet by the Cat", together with poems and prose from Dónall Dempsey's first collection, "Sifting Sound into Shape" (now out of print). Many of these are poems in celebration of Dónall's childhood holidays with his uncles in County Cork. It is his feelings for the importance of time, love and memory, and his sense of the absurd, that make unbearable ideas more bearable, in this inspiring book.
John W Sexton (poet, lyricist, scriptwriter and reviewer) writes: "One of Dónall Dempsey’s great intuitive strengths as a poet is his empathy with the people of his childhood ... Some of his strongest poems work as they do because they nail down the immediacy of the universal experience of being young and innocent. But in all those poems he also fully realises the minds and perspectives of the adults around him. ... Imbued with life, they step out of the poetry and into the mind’s eye of the reader; until the reader is blind with the seeing of the poet." 162 Pages Perfect-bound Paperback 15.24 wide x 22.86 tall Weight: 0.23 Kg ISBN: 978-1-907435-23-2 BEING DRAGGED ACROSS THE CARPET BY THE CAT You fall on the floor. Carefully I brush you up. Returned to your urn you sit upon the mantelpiece gazing at the setting sun. |