the very seat of power in New York
The book contains writings by Seamus Heaney
this is a book for the explorer and traveller
An Epilogue in 2002 gives a moving account of Owen Walsh’s illness and death from cancer in Mayo
In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems in Irish into poems written in English – a tradition stretching back at least as far as Jonathan Swift – he stands out above all the rest
Love Notes from a German Building Site Book cover type:Paperback the very seat of powerWinner of the John McGahern Prize Paul, a young Irish engineer, follows his girlfriend to Berlin, and begins work on the renovation of a commercial building in Alexanderplatz. Wrestling with a new language, on a German building site running behind schedule, and with a relationship in flux, he becomes increasingly untethered. Set against the structural evolution of a sprawling city, this meditation on language, memory and yearning is underpinned by the