Paul Durcan Irish Poet and Writer Dublin.

Paul Durcan Poet, writer Dublin Ireland.
Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944. In 1974 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award and more recently the Irish American Cultural Institute Poetry Award (1989), The Whitebread Prize (for Daddy, Daddy, 1990) and the London Poetry Book Society choice for The Berlin Wall Café.

His books include

Endsville [with Brian Lynch] (Dublin, New Writers' Press, 1967)
O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor (Dublin, Anna Livia Press, 1975)
Sam's Cross (Dublin, Profile Press, 1978)
Teresa's Bar (1976, Loughcrew, Co Meath, The Gallery Press; revised edition, The Gallery Press, 1986)
Jesus, Break his Fall (Dublin, The Raven Arts Press, 1980)
Ark of the North (Raven Arts Press, 1982)
The Selected Paul Durcan (edited by Edna Longley, Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1982)
Jumping the Train Tracks with Angela (Dublin, Raven Arts Press/ Manchester, Carcanet New Press, 1983)
The Berlin Wall Café (The Blackstaff Press, 1985)
Going Home to Russia (The Blackstaff Press, 1987)
In the Land of Punt (with Gene Lambert 1989)
Jesus and Angela
Daddy, Daddy (The Blackstaff Press, 1990)
Crazy About Women (The National Gallery of Ireland, 1991, to coincide with the exhibition of the same name)
A Snail in My Prime/ New and Selected Poems (The Harvill Press, London/The Blackstaff Press, 1993)
Give Me Your Hand (London, MacMillan, in association with National Gallery Publications, 1994)
Christmas Day (London, The Harvill Press, 1997)
Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil(The Harvill Press, 1999)
Cries of an Irish Caveman (The Harvill Press, 2001)
Paul Durcan's Diary (2003)
The Art of Life (2004)