Gone Self Storm

Harry Clifton was Ireland Professor of Poetry in 2010-13. His books include Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks (Wake Forest University Press, USA, 2007), winner of the Irish Times / Poetry Now Award, and five titles from Bloodaxe, among these, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), shortlisted for Irish Times / Poetry Now Award, The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014), The Portobello Sonnets (2017), Herod’s Dispensations (2019) and Gone Self Storm (2023). After many years travelling and living Africa, Asia and Europe, he now lives in Dublin.

PART ONE
i.m. Dorothy Francesca Brandon Clifton, 1928–2019
11 A Ship Came from Valparaiso
12 Chile
13 To the Engineer Herbert Ashe
15 Sin-eater
16 Neruda
17 Rapa Nui
18 The Widow Transitito
19 Stepmother
21 Woman’s Home Companion
22 The Zeal of the Convert
24 What a Boy Should Know
25 Atacama Clothes-dump
26 Mother and Son
27 Whatever It Is
28 A Woman Drives Across Ireland
30 A House Called Stormy Weather
32 The Aching Void
33 Goodnight Antofagasta
35 White City

PART TWO
39 Glasnevin Clay
42 Gainor Crist
43 The Has-beens
45 Going Feral
46 Alice
48 Staten Island Ferry
49 Harvard Yard
50 The Fur Trade
52 The Gig with the Golden Microphone
54 On Ventry Strand
55 Amergin
57 Nafooey
59 The Salmon Cages
61 Radio Silence
62 After the Barbarians
64 Inscape

PART THREE
i.m. Mary Bridget McKavanagh Madden, 1925–2014
69 The Felling
72 In Brontë Country
73 Spinsters
74 Notes for a Townland
75 Honesty
76 The Decoys
77 The Sweep
78 Jericho
80 The Place of the Stonings
81 The Pure Source
83 Diatomite
84 The Ulster Cycle
86 Toome
88 Germinal
90 Praeger
91 The Earliest Breakfast in Northern Ireland
92 At the Grave of Seamus Heaney