Harry Clifton (born 1952) is an Irish poet. He was born in Dublin, but has lived in Africa and Asia, as well as more recently in continental Europe. He has published five collections of poems in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including The Liberal Cage (1988) and The Desert Route: Selected Poems 1973–1988 (1992).
Winston-Salem, N.C. Wake Forest University Press. 2012. ISBN 9781930630604
This complex, evocative volume takes up the theme of haunting and return so central to Harry Clifton’s work, and does so mas…