By Seán Lysaght
ISBN-10: 1852355018
ISBN-13: 9781852355012
ISBN-10: 1852355026
ISBN-13: 9781852355029
the guts prefers, // of that first loneliness /
of timber / and northern birds.
Seán Lysaght’s retelling of the culture that has it that Achilles reached Achill is emblematic of the diversity of this watchful poet’s matters. His field-trips within the west of eire, following the footsteps of pioneering naturalists, led to specified, distinct early poems that refracted a neighborhood concentration via broader views. Alert to the hard work of human presence he many times will pay tribute to the splendours of Ireland’s normal habitats. Excerpts from ‘The O–––––’ show of their information of the heroic migrations of sea-trout and salmon a potential to discover rules of language, self and id in prolonged paintings. Poems from his ‘Bird Sweeney’ series contain studying and lore as they conjure the frenzied routine of a cursed cleric in new adaptations on an archetype.
Seán Lysaght’s chosen Poems attracts at the paintings of greater than two decades and 5 collections. Combining lyric darts and tracts of near-Wordsworthian contemplation, it's a rigorously thought of distillation of what Edward Larrissy praised in Stand as ‘a poetry of remark, but in addition of meditation; a poetry the place the standard verges at the visionary’.
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