In a Town of Five Thousand People

by Frank McGuinness

This, Frank McGuinness's 5th collection, demonstrates again the 'energy and intensity' Peter Denman noted in 'Poetry Ireland Review'. Urgent and prodigious, this is a book of wide-reaching embrace.

104 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 13, 2012

About the author

Frank McGuinness is Professor of Creative Writing in University College Dublin. A world-renowned playwright, his first great stage hit was the highly acclaimed ‘Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme’. He is also a highly skilled adapter of plays by writers such as Ibsen, Sophocles, Brecht, and writer of several film scripts, including Dancing at Lughnasa, and he has published several anthologies of poetry.