"All Over Ireland"
by Dennis O'Driscoll
Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Volume 29, No. 1 & No. 2

Dennis O'Driscoll:

Dennis O'Driscoll's publications include New & Selected Poems (Anvil Press, 2004) and Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams: Selected Prose Writings (Gallery Press, 2001). Among his awards are a Lannan Literary Award in 1999 and the 2005 E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He works as a civil servant in Dublin, Ireland.

About Parnassus: Poetry in Review:

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