Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, Hardcover

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 G bler, 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'.

Gerald Dawe is a retired Professor of English and Fellow of Trinity College. He has published eight collections of poetry and several volumes of essays, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Macaulay Fellowship in Literature. His latest poetry collection Mickey Finn's Air was published in 2014; Of War and War's Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing appeared in 2015.