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CHUCK KRUGER, a

respected writer living on Cape Clear Island in

West Cork, has won numerous

poetry and short story competitions and is published in both genres. He is

a regular on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany as

he was on Seascapes and Lyric FM’s Quiet

Quarter. Puffs and Gusts

is his third poetry collection.

‘Chuck Kruger’s deep love of his adopted home Cape Clear Island shines though his work. ‘The wonder of the wild’, as he calls it, has him in thrall, and his clear diction communicates his passion clearly to his readers...There is a treat in store here for admirers of Chuck’s truly original and deeply insightful work.’ Alannah Hopkin

‘Nature abounds in kestrels, heron, seals, skunks and whales and throughout these poems Kruger navigates with a light, yet confident touch. “Puffs & Gusts” is a collection to savour, it is an airy breeze of a book with plenty of truth to ponder on.’

Matthew Geden

PUFFS AND GUSTS, Chuck Kruger’s latest poetry collection, embodies the writer’s love of - and fascination for - the sea. The collection consists of three sections, the first of his new poems from the last three years and the following two from poems he wrote back in the 1970s. The collection will captivate the reader and remind us of the power and beauty of the West Cork Coast.

Of his adopted island he says: ‘Cape’s a poem I read every day, every night. It’s a point of reference, a metaphor by which I confirm my very being. It’s the place I love more than any other’.

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