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ALL THAT JAZZ, Gerry’s third poetry collection (see BOOKS)

To purchase a copy of ALL THAT JAZZ email gerry.boland@gmail.com

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‘winding down’ a poem narrated by Gerry. To listen to more of Gerry’s poems click here

winding down
(from Gerry’s Watching Clouds Collection)

suddenly I seem to have got older
I wouldn’t mind if I could pinpoint
a moment a date a period an event

then I could say yes
that was it now it makes sense
but no nothing like that

everything moves more slowly now
as if someone prised me open
in the middle of the night

removed a battery
perhaps even two
yet couldn’t be arsed to tell me

give it to me straight whoever you are
is this how it’s going to be from now on
a battery here a battery there

until my troubled heart gives out?

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‘Watching Clouds’ (Doghouse, 2011) is Gerry’s debut poetry collection. The late Dermot Healy, acclaimed poet and author, called it ‘a rare collection of poems…filled with insights that are astonishing and ironic’. He continued, ‘It takes a rare voice to successfully contain them both, and Gerry Boland has that gift.’

Click here to read two poems from ‘Watching Clouds’.

Gerry reading Gardener’s Dream

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