Looking Through You

Northern Chronicles

By: Gerald Dawe

Write A Review

Hardcover | 10 September 2020

At a Glance

Hardcover
114 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
20.32 x 13.34 x 1.91

Hardcover

$39.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $9.94 with

Ships in 5 to 10 business days

Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, the sequel to renowned Belfast poet and author Gerald Dawe's critically acclaimed In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast, is the evocative record of the musical, literary and artistic influences that inspired and forged Dawe's awakening as a poet, and his career in Irish literature.Taking its bearings from Belfast in the 1960s, The Beatles' Rubber Soul album and the energising shock of reading the great American poets Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, Dawe's wry and engaging style has produced a telling record of the music, poetry and culture of growing up in the northern capital.Featuring the stunning photography of Euan Gëbler, this literary memoir is a must-have for fans of Dawe's work, a superb introduction to his world for new readers, and, in his own words, may help 'renew Belfast and the ordinary life and lives of the city, and allow its people to overcome as best they can the seemingly irreconcilable and unsolvable conflicts of the past'.

Industry Reviews

'I adored Looking Through You. I read it in a single day and re-read it again today. It was atmospheric, evocative, moving and contained important challenges to stereotypes...I wanted to cheer when [Dawe] confronted that awful, deliberately constructed cliche about Northern Protestants either lacking culture or having a culture inferior to their Catholic fellow citizens.'

-- Henry McDonald

As we might expect from as strong a poet, Dawe is an exegete of great acuity. He teases out the surprising subtleties of Rubber Soul with - somehow - both the sobriety of the critic-scholar and the enthusiasm of adolescence. His prose, moreover, is distinctly poetic in its attention to particularity.

* Totally Dublin *

'Beautifully written and evocative'

-- Brian Maye * The Irish Times *

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.