Anchorage Shop For / Sale We are guided

We are guided

His diaries and the photographs he took on travels and of his subjects enliven the narrative and give intriguing insights into his works of these years and his unique engagement with the culture and society of that time

each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket

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Anchorage Shop For / Sale We are guidedPoetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us. Bernard O'Donoghue investigates the idea of anchorage as a place we build for ourselves out of memory and story. The Ireland of his youth is rich in colour and precise in detail, and while he acknowledges the power of the past, he also brings it into question: 'I wish I'd never started on this story; It may have been a dream, or maybe not . . .' O'Donoghue's informal, even playful tone