The Sound of the Shuttle is an eloquent and compelling selection of Essays written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring the difficult and at times neglected territory of Cultural Belonging and Northern Protestantism.
Sketching in lit.
The title, taken from a letter of John Keats during a journey through the north-east in 1818, evokes the lives, now erased from history, of the thousands of workers in the linen industry, tobacco factories and shipyards of Belfast.
The Sound of the Shuttle is an eloquent and compelling selection of Essays written over four decades by Belfast-born poet Gerald Dawe, exploring the difficult and at times neglected territory of Cultural Belonging and Northern Protestantism
