The Anchorage by Bernard O'Donoghue Liverpool University Press Yet it has long remained

Yet it has long remained a hidden territory - and even now

and facture as the material fact of joy

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one that shows us how to bear our pain without trying to erase its source

Published 10th October 2024

The Anchorage by Bernard O'Donoghue Liverpool University Press Yet it has long remainedPublished 5th June 2025. Poetry 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