Insomnia in the Afternoon

Review Abondoned Site With Portakabin Apollinaire In Dublin The Beautiful Redhead A Certain Sunday Chickenshit The Death Of The Pharmacist's Wife Dream Home Elegy For Thelonius Exotic Birds The Father's Prayer The Florida Room God The Great Book A Grey Afternoon In The Plateau Years The Hag Of Brehec Happy Hour Heaven Heaven Is Waiting Heaven: Behind Closed Doors Homage To Life In The Land Of Disdain Insomnia In The Afternoon Insomnia In The Through Lounge Moon Solo The Poetry Of Clouds Rejection And Acceptance In Kilburn High Road Sitting With Kavanagh By The Grand Canal Strictly No Readmission Sundays Talking To God On The New Bridge Over The Foyle What Do You Think? Women Of Forty Youth -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Product Description Direct, witty and flamboyant, 'Insomnia in the Afternoon' marks the long-awaited return of the poet hailed by the Irish Times as the 'bard of studied irreverence.' Exploring themes seldom tackled in contemporary poetry- the adult sense of diminishment and loss and the difficulty of finding faith and hope to replace the exuberance of youth- Michael Foley speaks with a rare compassion of the painful and joyous journeys of men and women struggling to maintain relationships in the face of the 'cunning and patient enemies' of indifference and dissolution. Intensely engaged with the manifold splendours of everyday life, these poems eschew sentimentality and self-pity with the candour, insight and rhythmic vitality that is the heartbeat of true poetry.