Give me your hand: Poems

by Paul Durcan

In 1991, poet Paul Durcan was curator of a show at the National Gallery in Dublin and wrote a collection of poems based on the paintings in that show - "Crazy About Women". This book follows a similar idea and is a collection of 50 poems inspired by paintings in the London National Gallery.

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 1994

About the author

Paul Durcan was an Irish poet.

Reviews

[Debbie Lampf · Rating 3 out of 5]

More like a 2.5. It was OK.

[Caspar "moved to storygraph" Bryant]

Perplexed by the responses to this one. Paul I'm not sure where this was. Responses to a series of poems in the National Gallery (London, not sure if I should be interrogating that from an Irish poet) is kind of both a dream and a commonplace. I don't know if this collection evades what in photography is called the 'walk-out shot'. The painting has people? What are they thinking? It's cheeky and anachronistic? etc