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www.independent.ie Saturday February 05 2011, Review: Time on the Ocean: A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town by Theo Dorgan
New Island, €15.99, Paperback
The appeal of the sea is as old as mankind. Our histories and our nations have been fashioned by those who crossed oceans in pursuit of their destiny.(more)

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www.tribune.ie - 05th December 2010 - Paperbacks Tom Widger
With Additional reporting by David Evans
Time on the Ocean: A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town by Theo Dorgan .......

This is a compelling and pacy account of Dorgan's 23-day, cape-to-cape voyage. From the notorious Cape Horn – "under us a boneyard of wrecked ships" – they go through the southern ocean, at times, rather than over it.......(more)

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The Irish Times - Saturday, November 20, 2010 - Home again at the bottom of the world.......PETER CUNNINGHAM
SAILING: Time on the Ocean: A Voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Town By Theo Dorgan, New Island, 298pp. €15.99
‘ARE BOATS really meant to do this?” the poet, writer and sailor Theo Dorgan asked at the outset of his book Sailing for Home , which recounted a voyage from Antigua to Kinsale undertaken in 2001. It was the first time that Dorgan, a relative newcomer then to sailing, had attempted a passage of such duration, and his book sparkled with the novelties that greeted him at every turn. During that voyage he also discovered, and recounted with great skill and patience, the beguiling emptiness of a long sea journey and how dreams dreamed at sea seem to stand alone......(more)

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The Irish Examiner , Saturday, November 13, 2010 - Flowing tale of a poet in a boat .... By Richard Fitzpatrick
Time on the Ocean: A voyage from Cape Horn to Cape Hope Theo Dorgan New Island; €15.99
SEAFARERS are a superstitious bunch. Theo Dorgan’s sailing trip round Cape Horn to Cape Town began at a port in Chile, on a Friday. You’re not supposed to set sail on a Friday. "I never in my life met a deep-water sailor who isn’t intensely superstitious," says Dorgan. "If you ever want a box in the mouth, go out on deck in a force nine and start whistling. People will queue up to give you a dig: ‘We’ve got more than enough wind. Thank you’. I would always pour a drink over the stern, for Poseidon, as a libation. We carry all the evolution of the human mind inside ourselves. The reptile brain, which is preternaturally connected to the world – before conscious thought ever even evolved – has this sense that everything is in touch with everything.......(more)

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The Irish Examiner, Saturday, October 16, 2010 - Greek - Share Southern comfort
IN the very first poem of his beautiful new book, Theo Dorgan declares his loyalty and his aesthetic impulse.......(more)

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The Irish Times - Saturday, March 27, 2010. POETRY: Greek, by Theo Dorgan, Dedalus Press, 79pp, €11.95 - by BERNARD O'DONOGHUE

THEO DORGAN, one of the great keepers of the Grail of Irish poetry in the current era, makes all his interests work together in this stunning new book. At first glance the Greek in question is Ulysses – not surprising from the author of the wonderful seafarer’s book Sailing for Home , Dorgan’s prose account of a transatlantic voyage under sail..... (more)