Once Was A Boy by Theo Dorgan Charles Tomlinson Bryce's poetry explores home

Bryce's poetry explores home

The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative process

exploring in formally challenging terms the obsessive love story between an American and an English poet

alienation and the individual’s struggle to hold on

Once Was A Boy by Theo Dorgan Charles Tomlinson Bryce's poetry explores homeThe bells that break on the morning air at the opening of Theo Dorgans new collection of poems signal both the beginning of an ordinary day in his native Cork, but also a return to his time as a schoolboy there, a time and place made extraordinary by the attention and focus of a youngster beginning to make sense of the world, and, in particular, learning the weight and power of language (The words are awkward, shaping themselves in my head, testing