Patrick Deeley est un enseignant et poète spécialisé dans le vers pour enfants. Son œuvre s'efforce de capturer la beauté et la complexité du monde à travers le langage, dans le but d'inspirer les jeunes lecteurs à leur propre expression créative. Le style poétique de Deeley est reconnu pour sa sensibilité et sa fantaisie.
Deeleys earthy poems have a muscular tension and passion that gives his work a bracing and energizing quality. This volume draws on his five earlier collections and includes a large number of new and unpublished poems.
Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. From this moment, Patrick unfolds his childhood as a series of evocative moments, from the intricate workings of the timber workshop run by his father to the slow taking apart of an old tractor and the physical burial of a steam engine; from his mother's steady work on an old Singer sewing machine to his father's vertiginous quickstep on the roof of their house. There are many wonderful descriptions of the natural world and delightful cameos of characters and incidents from a not-so-long-ago country childhood. In a style reminiscent of John McGahern's Memoir, Deeley's beautifully paced prose captures the rhythms, struggles and rough edges of a rural life that was already dying even as he grew. This is an enchanting, beautifully written account of family, love, loss, and the unstoppable march of time.
Seventh collection of poems by Irish poet Patrick Deeley
Patrick Deeley is an Irish poet with a profound sense of place and of ecological awareness. Born in Loughrea, Co. Galway, in 1953, he grew up on the edge of a wetland meadow, or callows, whose flora and fauna have provided an enduring theme for his writing over some thirty years. Four previous collections have appeared, all from Dedalus, the most recent being Turane: The Hidden Village (1995) and Decoding Samara (2000). Principal of a large school in Ballyfermot, Dublin, he is also the author of a number of fiction titles for younger readers, including The Lost Orchard, winner of the Bisto Book of the Year Eilis Dillon Award in 2001.