Paul Durcan's Diary

Broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1’s Today with Pat Kenny between 2000 and 2003, Paul Durcan’s Diary spoke weekly to the nation.

Walking alone in the streets of the world, Paul Durcan has taken the reader on an exhilarating journey. From Enniscorthy to New York, from Irishtown to Iraq, the ‘news of the day that’s in it’ is distilled through the poet’s eye, at times deeply personal, at times reflective, at times abundant and sensual: his ailing mother 'a small, spilt sea-wooing moon'; a passing ship at Ringsend 'like a vast crate floating in the middle of a raindrop'; the hawthorn trees of the midlands 'blossoming baking powder white over all the meadows'.

Part auto-biography, part opinion and reflection, defence and accusation, Paul Durcan’s Diary is collected here for the very first time.