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| | By Siobhan McAndrew The literati convened in Oxford's tiny Half Moon pub on Saturday May 17 for the launch of Bernard O'Donoghue's latest poetry collection. Bernard O'Donoghue is a Fellow in English at Wadham College and a noted Irish poet.  | | Poet, Tom Paulin gave a reading from John Clare. |
Outliving is his fifth collection, following on from Here nor There (1999) and Gunpowder (1995), which won the Whitbread Prize for poetry. In his poems, he deals with the themes of displacement and imagined community. Having lived in England since the age of 16, his poetry refers to the Ireland of the past and of the mind, and its increasing unfamiliarity. His poems are detailed and precise, like concentrated short stories, with an elegiac quality. Brendan Mac Lua, founder of the London-based newspaper The Irish Post, gave a speech. He commended the collection of poems for eschewing nostalgia and pointing out that the Irish throughout western Europe can fly home cheaply, sometimes arriving more quickly than if battling with the snarling traffic within Ireland. He likened the collection to a small Irish fishing boat: 'and it is a great honour to launch this currach'. O'Donoghue then read from the collection, citing Oxford Irishman Michael Henry as a particular inspiration and dedicatee of many of the poems.  | | Jacob Wells, an award-winning fiddler, provided the music. |
'The Mule Duignan', the tale of a navvy remembering his bitter and poverty-stricken childhood, was especially moving. Saluting friend and colleague Tom Paulin for his ability to write political poems, O'Donoghue contributed one inspired by a photograph of a dead teenage Taliban fighter. Tom Paulin followed, reading from John Clare, and a translation of a Palestinian poem. Music was led by 14-year-old award-winning fiddler Jacob Wells who played The May Morning Dew. Michael Henry, a noted traditional singer, contributed several ballads and to the delight of the audience, O'Donoghue himself sang unaccompanied Common Working Man. Outliving is published by Chatto & Windus.
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