Gabriel Fitzmaurice – författare

In Best-Loved Poems Gabriel Fitzmaurice, 'the people's poet', gathers favourite poems written over a career spanning more than forty years, poems that have touched the minds and hearts of people all over the English-speaking world. Formally assured, he writes with a singer's ear for rhythm and rhyme. In this collection, Fitzmaurice celebrates love, grief and joy, people and place, faith, family and friends in visionary, durable and deceptively simple poems.

This bilingual collection features poems dealing with love, politics, angst, faith, music, and poetry itself in a voice that is at once traditional and new. Illustrated by six paintings, this volume will bring immediate pleasure, and live long in the reader’s imagination.

The poems in this volume cover everything from poo to religion, bullying to friendships, birth to death, and are ideal for reading alone or with mum and dad: Though you live in a house With a proper address And wear proper clothes Not my hand-me-down dress Though you think that you're better Than I'll ever be And look down on our equals I'm proud to be me.

In his new book of sonnets, Gabriel examines his life in a small community in the south west of Ireland where he has spent all of his life and where he worked as an elementary school teacher for over thirty years. He examines his life from youth to the present day, as he approaches his sixtieth birthday. He writes about growing up in a village that played Beckett, Thornton Wilder, and Lady Gregory; the Irish language; old age, sickness, and death; as well as new life, parenthood, and grandparenthood; and Irish music, sports, politics, and conflict.