Christy Brown Collected Poems

Chrisy Brown the author of My Left Foot died in 1981. " Here was a man," as Frank Delaney declares, "who had the true writer's gifts." Christy Brown's first collection of poems, Come Softly to My Wake, was published to widespread aclaim. He went on to publish two more, Background Music and Of Snails and Skylarks, before his tragic death in 1981. In paperback for he first time and now out of print, this Collected Poems incorporates all three volumes in a single edition. "Almost everything Christy Brown has written has the unique appeal of a writer whose primary concern is complete emotional honesty.. All the time one senses behind the poems a creator whose delight in words is equaled only by his passionate candour of expression." Born in 1932 the son of a Dublin bricklayer, he was a victim of the athenoid variety of cerebral palsy. With the help of his family and doctor he overcame his physical disability and won fame with his bestselling novel about his life in Dublin, My Left Foot which also won an Oscar when it was made into a film. His other novels are, Down All the Days, A Shadow in Summer, A Promising Career and Wild Grown the Lilies.