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A City Imagined is in praise of the city of Belfast. With a clear eye on the truths that history has demonstrated of the northern capital's sectarian and violent past, the memoir opens in the seemingly stable world of the 1950s, with Dawe enraptured by his mother's storytelling, which hinted at previous lives lived.
Written in his highly regarded wry and lyrical style, Dawe's memoir sketches the outlines of his life, as he starts to understand the...
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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...
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In Another World is a unique trip through Belfast, mapped into the mystic through the timeless music of Van 'the Man' Morrison. The aptly soulful and inventive prose stems from the electric wit of acclaimed poet and fellow Belfast man, Gerald Dawe. Struck by the extraordinary brand of rhythm and blues that was Morrison's brainchild, Dawe's book is a celebration of the inspirations that underlie Morrison's music. Silhouetted in the work is Belfast,...
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