Weeshie's Picks
Poems of Faith and Doubt
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)
"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)
