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Paul Durcan

Irish poet
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Erik Martiny
Instructor, LycĂ©e International d’Aix-en-Provence. Editor of Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne and author of IntertextualitĂ© et filiation paternelle dans la poĂ©sie anglophone.
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Paul Durcan (born October 16, 1944, Dublin, Ireland—died May 17, 2025, Dublin) was an Irish poet whose work displays a desire to surprise the reader by resorting to surrealist eccentricity. His collection Daddy, Daddy (1990) was awarded the Whitbread Book Award for poetry. Durcan studied archaeology and medieval history at University College Cork. Although he described himself as a devout follower of the Christian faith (evidenced in poems such as “On the Morning of Christ’s...

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