Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, the sequel to renowned Belfast poet and author Gerald Dawe's critically acclaimed In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast, is the evocative record of the musical, literary and artistic influences that inspired and forged Dawe's awakening as a poet, and his career in Irish literature.Taking its bearings from Belfast in the 1960s, The Beatles' Rubber Soul album and the energising shock of reading the great American poets Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, Dawe's engagingly lyrical style has produced an evocative and memorable record of the music, poetry and culture of growing up in the northern capital.



Featuring the stunning photography of Euan Gebler, this literary memoir is a must-have for fans of Dawe's work, a superb introduction to his world for new readers, and, in his own words,