Kings and Bicycles

Kings and Bicycles, Zen Masters in the Supermarket, Ballad of the Bridge Troll, A Week of Delirium and Shells – Donovan’s titles illustrate his rich mixture of the lyrical and the mundane. Wide in scope and rich in content – Books Ireland. The poems are too various and good to categorise, but Gerard Donovan’s book kaleidoscopes the colours of death, loss, emigration, love, praise and humour. He is a latter-day Columbus riding through these colours – Greg Delanty on Donovan’s first collection, Columbus Rides Again (Salmon 1992).