Michael O'Neill's Return of the Gift is a volume about what is given and what is lost. Writing unsentimentally and with insight about powerful subjects such as the death of his mother, caring for his father, and his own recent diagnosis of cancer, the poet speaks of and to his personal and historical life and also explores themes of elegy and friendship. Memories are woven vividly throughout a thematically varied yet coherent collection, in which a witty and moving pleasure in living and language is always to the fore.
- ISBN13 9781911469469
- Publish Date 2 April 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Arc Publications
- Format Paperback
- Pages 102
- Language English