Once Was A Boy by Theo Dorgan Charles Tomlinson alienation and the individual’s struggle

alienation and the individual’s struggle to hold on

when you can ask a kindness

Peter Robinson has been described as ‘the finest poet of his generation’ (PN Review) and ‘a major English poet’ (Poetry Review)

and their impact upon one's sense of self

Once Was A Boy by Theo Dorgan Charles Tomlinson alienation and the individual’s struggleThe bells that break on the morning air at the opening of Theo Dorgans new collection of poems signal both the beginning of an ordinary day in his native Cork, but also a return to his time as a schoolboy there, a time and place made extraordinary by the attention and focus of a youngster beginning to make sense of the world, and, in particular, learning the weight and power of language (The words are awkward, shaping themselves in my head, testing