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Poems of Faith and Doubt
Poems of Faith and Doubt
by Gabriel Fitzmaurice (2011)

Price: €9.60
with bog paintings by Brenda Fitzmaurice.

"The collection affirms, with a fine balance, a margin of hope in a battered but beautiful world." 
-- Declan Kiberd

"Deeply moving. I bless your Road to Autumn!" 
-- Les Murray


MORE PRAISE FOR GABRIEL FITZMAURICE

"[T]he best contemporary, traditional, popular poet in English".
--
Ray Olson, Booklist (US)

"Fitzmaurice is a wonderful poet".
--
Giles Foden, The Guardian

"One of Ireland's favourite poets".
--
Books Ireland

"Gabriel Fitzmaurice's…ballads…are comparable with Burns's for their insights and lyricism". 
-- James J.McAuley, The Irish Times

"Fitzmaurice's elevation of Moyvane has resonances with Oliver Goldsmith's Auburn and Patrick Kavanagh's Shancoduff".
--
Brendan Hamill, Fortnight

"Ireland, particularly the South…finds its local bard in Gabriel Fitzmaurice…thereby making such 'singing' socially responsible in a way Wordsworth would have endorsed".
--
Francis O'Hare, The Honest Ulsterman

"[Fitzmaurice] is poetry's answer to John B. Keane".
--
Fred Johnston, Books Ireland

 "We need poets who can probe reality like this, and Fitzmaurice is doing it in style".
--
Gerard Quinn, The Kerryman

 "He has a gift for making the quotidian interesting and investing the ordinary with extraordinary significance".
--
Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, The Celtic Pen

"Gabriel Fitzmaurice finds truths that speak to us all".
--
Moyra Donaldson, Figments (Belfast)

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