In This Life - Couverture souple

O Loughlin, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848400799 ISBN 13 : 9781848400795

Editeur : New Island Books, 2010

Synopsis

Born in Dublin in 1958, Michael O'Loughlin has been among most arresting voices in Irish poetry since his debut, Stalingrad, the Street Dictionary, in 1980. His earlier collections were from the perspective of the Irish emigrant in European cities - casting a cold eye on the Irish experience, while locating it within the broader European historical narrative. Now in his new collection - his first for a decade - he brings a new sensibility to bear on the disturbing realities of the Ireland he found on his return to his native city. He does so firstly through poems in his own voice, detailing the death of friends and family members, where he attempts to go beyond the given norms of family and society. But in a series of poems ostensibly translated from the Latvian, he also employs the voice of a fictional Latvian poet, Mikelis Norgelis, an immigrant to Ireland. Mikelis is not just an outside observer of Irish life and culture, but brings his own baggage from Eastern Europe, the place which provided O'Loughlin with metaphors for his earlier work. This proves another kind of homecoming for a poet described by The Poetry Review (London) as A writer of intense power - [with] poems of force, power, strength and surge. It is the refusal to get bogged down, the willingness to write afresh, that gives the poems their intensity.A"

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael O'Loughlin was born in Dublin in 1958. His poetry collections are Stalingrad: The Street Dictionary (Dublin, Raven Press, 1980); Atlantic Blues (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1982); The Diary of a Silence (Raven Arts Press, 1985); and Another Nation, New & Selected Poems (Dublin, New Island Books, 1994/UK Arc Publications, 1996). He has also published a collection of short stories, The Inside Story (Raven Arts Press, 1999); a critical essay, After Kavanagh: Patrick Kavanagh and the Discourse of Contemporary Irish Poetry (Raven Arts Press, 1985); and his translation of the Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg's selected poems, Hidden Weddings (Raven Arts Press, 1987). He has lived for many years in continental Europe and now lives in Dublin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Island Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848400799
• ISBN 13: 9781848400795
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 65
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