Points West is a book of emotionally forceful meditative poems — their plain style and direct expression by now an unmistakable signature.

Gerald Dawe is an Irish poet who has published eight collections of poetry including Selected Poems (2012) and Mickey Finn's Air (2014) and several volumes of prose, most recently, Of War and War's Alarms (2015), In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast (2017) and The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing (2018).

His work has been translated into German, French and Japanese. He has given readings and lectures in many parts of the world. He was Professor of English and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin until his retirement in 2017. He lives in County Dublin. Books by Gerald Dawe Poetry Sheltering Places (1978)

Gerald Dawe is one of our better known poets and he has an international reputation. This is his seventh collection; his first appeared in 1978. He was born and raised in Belfast but these poems reflect a worldwide experience taking in Boston, Berlin and the Mediterranean as well as places closer to home. he explores big themes of history and origins. The poems are as much an inward journey as a geographical one with poems like ‘Family Tree’. Dawe remembers friends and colleagues in dedicating many of the poems to them and acknowledges who his mentors are. This is a collection of well-honed, thoughtful poems from a master of his art. A painting by Klee decorates the cover.