Wild, Wild Erie: Poems inspired by paintings and sculpture in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

Born in Dublin in 1944, Paul Durcan is a leading poet in Ireland, winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (1990), and celebrated as one of the most original voices in modern Irish literature. Unsparingly satirical, Durcan’s poetry tackles social and political hypocrisies, but also can be intensely personal, mining his own relationships and everyday experiences to paint vivid but unorthodox—even surreal—scenes. As passionate about art as he is about writing, his poetry is strikingly visual and ...