© Opus Nakladateslstvi, 2009
A series of delicate formal shapes, all rhymes and rhythms, follows a number of longer poems and together they meld the matter of contemporary Dublin suburbs with new, and renewed, bucolics, and a personal, familial world with historical dramas of an ancient European empire. A sequence of twenty sonnets amounts to a meditation on Prague as a seventeenth-century, landlocked capital filtered through the lens of living there. Taking poems by Valéry and Petr Borkovec as touchstones, the book explores the undulations of forest across the interior of Europe, its rivers rising in flood and leaving flood-plains – all this ghosted by the seacoast of the author’s native city.
The Gallery Press 2006
Translated into: Czech
Jean Barry
Gallery Press
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