NEW AND RENEWED Poems 1967-2004 Review by Philip Casey The Irish Independent 23 Oct 2004 Brian Lynch’s poetry and its rhythms have beguiled me since reading a poem called Panic Stricken Love in his chapbook Outside the Pheasantry, (1975). This poem was included in his collection Perpetual Star (1981), as Panic Stricken, and here it [...]
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PITY FOR THE WICKED by Brian Lynch With a Preface by Conor Cruise O’Brien The Duras Press €15 The Peace Process time for poetic justice by Dennis Kennedy The Belfast Telegraph, 5 December 2005 One of the most devastating critiques of the savagery of the Troubles and of the hypocrisy of the ‘peace process’ has [...]
PITY FOR THE WICKED by Brian Lynch With a Preface by Conor Cruise O’Brien The Duras Press €15 A tract for the times – Lynch’s poem on the North Maurice Hayes The Irish Independent, May 21, 2005 Satire is a necessary purgative for the health of any democracy. It is even more necessary in a [...]
Of human loss and savagery Gerald Dawe PITY FOR THE WICKED The Duras Press €15 ISBN 1-873748-16-7 The Irish Times, June 4, 2005 One Saturday afternoon in mid-August 1969 I was sitting in the upstairs lounge of the Spanish Rooms on the Lower Falls Road in Belfast with a couple of pals before heading to [...]