The Anchorage

Poetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us.

Bernard O’Donoghue investigates the idea of anchorage as a place we build for ourselves out of memory and story. The Ireland of his youth is rich in colour and precise in detail, and while he acknowledges the power of the past, he also brings it into question: ‘I wish I’d never started on this story;/It may have been a dream, or maybe not . . .’ O’Donoghue’s informal, even playful tone is that of a poet disarming themselves ...