Selected Poems by John McAuliffe Maura Dooley and others in the work

and others in the work of today’s poets

A haunting tale

a modern-day William Blake

which celebrate aspects of Christmas: from the charity of King Wenceslas to the famous truce between the Allies and the Germans in the trenches in 1914

advert-laden over-wiring that springs from its digital commons

Selected Poems by John McAuliffe Maura Dooley and others in the workHis book is every bit as good as I hoped it would be. McAuliffes got the gift. Mark the name. His sure hand is apparent in every line: syntax and pulse in the service of experience. This poets sense of shape and design provides structures that highlight his felicities of movement, texture and observation. No cheap ourishes, no ingratiating mannerisms, just the real stuff, hard won, handsomely brought off. This guys the total package, as we say over