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a compact of words |
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| - rob mclennan
a compact of words, Canadian poet rob mclennan's fifteenth trade poetry title, comes out of a series of reflections on domestic matters - a break-up, his daughter - influenced by the g... 
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A Father's Day |
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| - Pete Mullineaux
"Keen-eyed and lyrical, this superbly crafted exploration of the male identity is both rich and touching in its honesty and vulnerability. We see the poet reflect on what it means to be a partner, a father and a man who has lost a...
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A Quiet Pint in Kinvara |
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| - Richard Tillinghast
"Tillinghast's poems range confidently among different cultures. He has a sense of history as a living force. The experiments in metre, rhyme and free verse in The Stonecutter's Hand are important. He is a wonderfully gifted poet,...
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A Tour of Your Country |
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| - Eamonn Wall
In his most wide-ranging work to date, Eamonn Wall probes and meditates on the histories, habitations, landscapes and ecologies of ancestral and newly-encountered places. A Tour of Your Count...
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Airborne |
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| - Mark Granier
"What I like about Mark Granier's work is his sense of the edgy play in words themselves, together with his straightforward command of narrative happenings. In their lightness of lyric touch, these poems introduce a speaking imagi...
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Along The Liffey: Poems and Short Stories |
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| - Sheila O'Hagan
Sheila O'Hagan began writing in
1984 while studying at Birkbeck College, London University. In 1988 she
won the Goldsmith Award for Poetry, and in 1990 returned to her native
Dublin. In 1991 she won the Patrick Kavanagh A...
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Anatomy of a Love Affair (My Life in the Movies) |
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| - Mélanie Francès
The poems of Anatomy of a Love Affair (My Life in the Movies) explore the constant interaction between everyday life and art and the imaginary space it provides all of us. In the first section which gives its title to the co...
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Ancestor Worship |
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| - Michael S. Begnal
"Unusual routes become strategies. Mike Begnal is Irish-American, he writes in English and Irish, he can invent a hybridisation of style. Ancestor Worship is an extension of this, it can take on a new romancing and deciphering: 't...
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