Poet Paul Durcan uses poetry to criticise but doesn’t want offend

Paul Durcan’s new poems are critical of the ills in our society, but he still doesn’t want to offend, writes Caroline O’Doherty

IT COULD be the title of one of Paul Durcan’s compositions — ‘The Poet Apologises For The Horribleness Of His Poems’.

But that’s what Durcan does as he flicks through his new collection, asking tentatively for an opinion on two of the poems he worried about including.