Herod's Dispensations

Spiritual orphanhood, the loss and protection of innocence from the first estates of Dublin to the karmic wastes of northern China lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish poet Harry Clifton. Herods Dispensations shows his work now reaching beyond middle age, to revisit in meditations on death and migration the territories of the Far East from his early years, in the light of a new nomadic age. Harry Clifton has published nine other books of poetry, most recently The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (2012), The Holding Centre: Selected Poems 1974-2004 (2014) and Portobello Sonnets (2017).