Lysaght, Seán.

The Marram-Clocks [Signed].

First and only Edition. Westport [County Mayo], Published at Corratowick / Printed by Simon King [Cumbria,UK], 1997. Slim Quarto (18.2 cm x 26.5 cm). 12 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with mild sunning to spine. Wonderfully set type, humbly inscribed by Seán Lysaght on the titlepage. Now very rare !

Seán Lysaght was born in 1957 and grew up in Limerick. He was educated at UCD where he received a BA and an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature. He subsequently spent several years abroad, in Switzerland and Germany, before teaching for some time at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. He lectured at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology until 2015. He lives with his wife Jessica in Westport, County Mayo.
The Gallery Press has published six poetry collections — The Clare Island Survey (1991), Scarecrow (1998), Erris (2002), The Mouth of a River (2007), Venetian Epigrams (2008, translations after Goethe), Selected Poems (2010) and Carnival Masks (2014).
His work on the life and writings of Robert Lloyd Praeger: The Life of a Naturalist was published by Four Courts Press in 1998. His verse narrative of the life of Edmund Spenser was published under his own imprint in 2011 and Eagle Country in 2018.
In 2007 he received the O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. (Source: Gallery Press).

• Keywords: Irish Literature – Rare · Irish Poetry · Irish Poetry – Rare · Irish Poets · Signed
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 29405AB

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