What the Wolf Heard - Couverture souple

Breen, Daragh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848614969 ISBN 13 : 9781848614963

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2016

Synopsis

In the opening Lighthouses section the west coast of Ireland is recast as a kind of Burroughsian Land of the Dead, with the ghost-lights from defunct lighthouses mixing with those of the automated in a sequence that slowly allows itself to be decoded.

Ned Kelly, given his own requiem, is found morphing in and out of a lupine-self following the destruction of the last wolf in Ireland and a period which saw the mass-banishment of many of the country's underclasses to the new British antipodean colonies.

Other poems are suggestive of a bestiary, presenting various animals that have been damaged and reformed by their current environment.

A number of contemporary Irish artists are used as a sounding board, the poems following them, Alice-like, down their various rabbit-holes. Thrown into all of this mix are cameos from Harpo Marx and Mr. Punch, as well as opera-singing Alsatians.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daragh Breen was born in Cork in 1970. He has two previous collections, Across the Sound: shards from the history of an island (November Press, 2003) and Whale (November Press, 2010). His poetry has appeared extensively in Irish literary journals, including The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland, and he was also included in Poetry Ireland's 2015 anthology Everything to Play For: 99 Poems About Sport, edited by John McAuliffe. Having lived in London, Wales and Dublin, he now lives in West Cork. He has read at various Irish poetry festivals including the Cork International Poetry Festival and Soundeye.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848614969
• ISBN 13: 9781848614963
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 86
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible