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.
Gabriel Fitzmaurice, born in 1952 in Moyvane, Co Kerry, Ireland, is a retired teacher, principal, poet, broadcaster, writer, translator, singer, and raconteur. Author of over forty books, including poetry collections in English and Irish, as well as children’s verse, he has been compared to Burns for his insight and lyricism. A former chair and literary advisor of Listowel Writers’ Week, he hosts his own show on Kerry Radio and is a committee member of Éigse Michael Hartnett.
Real stories told in real language, the poems of Gabriel Fitzmaurice have the simple reality and powerful magic of the true folk song… and the songs are haunting and beautiful. Kris Kristofferson
Fitzmaurice is one of Ireland’s leading poets… a master of his art. Books Ireland
A gathering of favourite poems spanning over forty years, these poems that have touched the minds and hearts of people worldwide. A celebration of Fitzmaurice’s words, this collection covers the human condition in visionary and deceptively simple poems. Read of love, grief, joy, people and place, faith, family and friends.
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