Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles

by Gerald Dawe

Looking Through Northern Chronicles, the sequel to renowned Belfast poet and author Gerald Dawe’s critically acclaimed In Another Van Morrison and Belfast, is the evocative record of the musical, literary and artistic influences that inspired and forged Dawe’s awakening as a poet, and his career in Irish literature. Taking its bearings from Belfast in the 1960s, The Beatles’ Rubber Soul album and the energising shock of reading the great American poets Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, Dawe’s engagingly lyrical style has produced an evocative and memorable record of the music, poetry and culture of growing up in the northern capital. Featuring the stunning photography of Euan Gëbler, this literary memoir is a must-have for fans of Dawe’s work, a superb introduction to his world for new readers, and, in his own words, may help ‘renew Belfast and the ordinary life and lives of the city, and allow its people to overcome as best they can the seemingly irreconcilable and unsolvable conflicts of the past’.

86 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 3, 2020

Reviews

[T P Kennedy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice little read. It shines a light on the poet's background and growing up in a particular milieu in Belfast. It's a small book and entertaining. However, it felt more like a series of related essays than a whole.

[T H · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poet growing up in Belfast before and during the Troubles
Not bad