Lines - A Season of Light, Reflected in the Night

About the Book

It was the melancholy prophet as recorded in the book of Ecclesiastes who said, "There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven". Today is the time to complete the introduction to my fourth collection of poetry.

About the Author

John O’Rourke was born in Glasgow in 1961. He was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Cavan and St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Ordained a Catholic priest in 1986, when his fi rst poems were written, he spent ten years at Cavan Cathedral and four years as a volunteer missionary in Lagos, Nigeria. Having resigned from public ministry in 2000 John has combined writing poetry along with work with the Department of Justice, VMM, an NGO, teaching part-time at Patrician College, Finglas and adult literacy with Louth VEC. Now the director of Drogheda Creative Writers group, he has just completed his fourth volume of poems.