Flight
Flight includes three poems that received important prizes. Two of those poems are remarkable for the manner in which the poet envisages landmark moments in Irish history with insight and wit. 'The Way It Goes', which won the inaugural Strokestown Poetry Prize (1999), weaves a narrative out of the Famine that is as beautiful as it is oblique. 'Imperial Measure', winner of the inaugural Davoren Hanna Prize (2001), reconstructs the 1916 Easter Rising from the extraordinary angle of food. Also included is 'Or To Come', which won the 2000 Stand Magazine International Poetry Prize and which meditates on the troubled subjects of death and the passage of time. Other poems take on Elvis Presley, online catalogues, a teenage exchange to Brittany and the pleasures and tensions of erotic love.
Gallery Press 2002
Translated into: Czech, Romanian
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Jean Barry
Gallery Press
Loughcrew, Oldcastle
County Meath
Ireland
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