Dicko King
Dicko King was born at the old Carney Hospital in South Boston, and raised in St. Margaret’s parish in Dorchester during the last of the grand and mythical eras presided over by tribes of feral children—when adventures could be had beyond the watchful eyes of a mother or father, and despite strictures and wounds inflicted by priest or nun.
His first book of poems, Doggerland: Ancestral Poems, was a finalist for the Louise Bogan Award and winner of the 2014 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Bird Years (Mayapple Press, 2017) and the novel The Book of Saves, longlisted for the YesYes Books 2023 Fiction Open.
“This is a genuine touch of Ireland from every side with the poet as historian, storyteller, and wit at its epicenter.””
“Dicko King’s first poetry collection, Doggerland: Ancestral Poems, depends on a strange parallelism of time past and present, similar to the sedimentary sequences found in rock.””
Doggerland
Poems by dicko king
Dicko King calls this work “an ancestral chronicle,” but it’s bigger than that—something more like a species chronicle. King traces us out of the primordial ooze through our revolutions and migrations, and then, only finally, to his clan and family. This is poetry rising out of the blood and bones.
