Description
Product ID: | 9780571330478 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Seasons of Cullen Church |
Authors: | Author: Bernard O'Donoghue |
Page Count: | 64 |
Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry & poets |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork. This book confirms author's place as one of the most approachable and agile voices in contemporary Irish and British poetry. Shortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize, this new collection of expert lyric poems from Whitbread Poetry Award winner Bernard O''Donoghue movingly animates the scenery and characters of his childhood in County Cork. The mythologies of family are here: the relative who maybe emigrated to America to be ''set upon at his arrival / for the few pounds sewn inside his coat''; the memory of ''Barty, a hopeless speller'', caned so hard he dances; the big top come to the town park; the stolen apples raided from the orchard near the old school. Here too are the collective myths, the groundwater of older texts - Virgil''s Aeneid, the Riddles of the Exeter Book, Dante''s Purgatorio, the lives of the ancients and the gods - all of which in O''Donoghue''s dexterous and discerning care reach forward from their long-ago origins to echo down our own lives. |
Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-07-18 |