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Rigby Graham illustration from Dennis O'Driscoll's Fifty O'Clock

Fifty O'Clock

Dennis O'Driscoll

Illustrated by Rigby Graham

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‘Fifty O'Clock’ consists of a sequence of short prose-poems, written in 2004 when the poet turned 50 ­ the age at which his mother died thirty years before. Dennis O'Driscoll is a well-known and well-published contemporary Irish poet and poetry critic.

‘Distracted a while, I imagine my entire life still stacked
 in front of me like cash: as if some outrageous mistake
 had been made in calculating my age and I could
 bring back my birth cert like a receipt,
 insisting on a refund.’



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