Born in Belfast in 1952, Gerald Dawe is a poet, critic and translator. He is professor of creative writing at Trinity College, Dublin, and the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Selected Poems (The Gallery Press 2012) from which ‘The Moon-viewing Room’ is taken. He has been widely praised for the range and clarity of his work, qualities that are evident in this spare, stanzaic poem which shifts through space, time and different geographies in the service of a moving evocation of the way we look at the moon. His website is www.gerald-dawe.net
‘The Moon-viewing Room’ is reprinted here by permission of The Gallery Press.
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