The Anchorage by Bernard O'Donoghue #literature Extent: 384 pages

Extent: 384 pages

the Second World War to the 2024 elections

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One who is not an individual in their own right but the representative of a type

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The Anchorage by Bernard O'Donoghue #literature Extent: 384 pagesPoetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us. Bernard 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