Edward Denniston has lived and worked in Waterford since 1980, the city in which his Presbyterian ancestor from near Moatfarrell Longford travelled to live and preach dissent in the early 18th century. Edward is a retired teacher of English and Drama. His publications are: The Point Of Singing (Abbey Press, 1999); Eskimo Advice, an ebook (Rectory Press & Hayrake Press, 2007); Interacting — 60 Drama Scripts (Russell House Publishing, 2007) and The Scale Of Things (Salmon Poetry, 2013).

Books by Edward Denniston:

Other poems on the web by Edward Denniston:
"O'Henry's"

Edward Denniston's Website.

About For Crying Out Loud:

"A revered voice of the South East for many years, Edward Denniston sings forth anew with visionary power and profound honesty. Here in For Crying Out Loud he gives us the youthful taking off of clothes, a sheltering from rain beneath dripping hawthorns; a life lived in close communion with the earth. He is a passionate reader of nature's handbook. He has spent his entire career searching for the perfect kingfisher of elusive poetry, knowing that poems are as shy and rare as the private life of a riverbank. Like the stibbler without a living, he has been given posterity's license to preach poetry to bus-routes, cemeteries and places of palliative care. Here, Beckett-like, dissenting, clairvoyant with a reformation honesty, he has uncovered the most marvellous colours from beneath the 'Sea fog's voluminous greyghost.'"
—Thomas McCarthy