Look In by Michael Durack

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LOOK IN is a book written by someone who loves poetry’s toolkit — rhyme, refrain, metre, inherited forms, musicality — and who also loves the worlds that shaped him: pop music, sport, Irish rural life, film, childhood, and the long shadow of history. Michael Durack is a poet who knows his world, and knows how to bring both to the page with clarity and affection.

 

 

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Michael Durack grew up on a farm near Birdhill in County Tipperary. He was educated at Nenagh CBS and University College Dublin and worked as a teacher at Nenagh CBS for thirty-six  years. He was a founder member of Killaloe Writers Group.  He is the author of a chapbook, Nothing To Write Home About (Derg House), a comic narrative in verse, A Hairy Tale Of Clare (East Clare Telecottage) and a memoir in prose and poetry, Saved To Memory: Lost To View (Limerick Writers’ Centre.) With his brother, Austin, he collaborates on a programme of poetry and music, and together they have produced two albums, The Secret Chord (2013) and Going Gone (2015.)  Michael now lives in Ballina, Co. Tipperary. This is his third collection from Limerick’s Revival Press.