Love, loss, memory, history, place are familiar preoccupations in John O'Donnell's work; and, though poetry's subject matter may be similar, a unique voice explores these themes in unique ways.
The poems take us to very different places: Shakespeare in Ireland, the Holocaust, pioneering in Oregon, a grandmother's Alzheimer's.
Here is a poet who searches for truth, and whether O'Donnell is remembering me, surly in a sleeping-bag, fifteen or the Omagh atrocity, the voice is always direct .
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