The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange

by Peter Sirr

Peter Sirr's fourth collection, The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange, is a series of transactions between people and places, departures and arrivals.
The first section explores notions of home and homelessness in the lives of voyagers, residents, tourists, and adventurers, including medieval Jewish travellers and Irish glassmakers. Part two, A Journal, an extended meditation on desire and difference, charts the history of a love affair.

94 pages, Hardcover

Published February 1, 1997

About the author

Peter Sirr lives in Dublin. He is a prize-winning poet as well a critic, essayist and translator. For many years he was Director of the Irish Writers’ Centre and was also editor of the national poetry magazine, Poetry Ireland Review. He has published eight collection of poetry with The Gallery Press, including The Thing Is (2009), winner of The Michael Hartnett Award, and Selected Poems (2004). He is member of Aosdána.