{"product_id":"the-anchorage-paperback-2","title":"The Anchorage - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBernard O'Donoghue\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBernard O'Donoghue investigates the idea of anchorage as a place we build for ourselves out of memory and story. The Ireland of his youth is rich in colour and precise in detail, and while he acknowledges the power of the past, he also brings it into question: 'I wish I'd never started on this story;\/It may have been a dream, or maybe not . . .' O'Donoghue's informal, even playful tone is that of a poet disarming themselves as well as their reader. He is neither plaintive nor nostalgic but confronts the possibility that what you are most attached to can be, in the end, what ties you down. The poems also enact the reluctance to return that arises out of a fear of finding yourself locked out.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard O'Donoghue\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Cullen, Co Cork in 1945. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, where he taught Medieval English and Modern Irish Poetry. He has published six collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eGunpowder\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and \u003ci\u003eThe Seasons of Cullen Church\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize. His \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Faber in 2008. He has published a verse translation of \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin Classics, 2006), and is currently translating \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e for Faber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.6 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354090258681,"sku":"9780571387939","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Q3evUA5Vq39780571387939_17cc5a78-2e96-4ddc-a8dc-3295d89b57f6.webp?v=1769829144","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-anchorage-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}