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The Revenue Poet


Friends, readers and men from the country,

I've just put on YouTube my verse tribute to the great Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll who died on Christmas Eve 2012. The poem came to me as though down a pipe. I think it honours Dennis.

Humbly,

Brian

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quKA5tJhVvg

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