Barry MacSweeney was born in 1948 and died in 2000. He published
numerous collections, including The Templars of Hazard and The Book
of Demons, his last book. It recorded his fierce fight against
alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his
life--though only for three more years. When he died he had just
assembled a retrospective of his work. Wolf Tongue is his own
selection, with the addition of the last two books that many regard
as his finest work, Pearl and The Book of Demons. Most of his
poetry was out-of-print, and much had never been widely published.
The title is his. He was a contrary, a lone wolf. His ear for
soaring, lyric melody was unmatched, and "his poetry became dark as
blue steel, edging towards what became his domain: the lament"--The
Independent. His poetry places a radical, critical energy,
unsparing of illusions, and bitter and comic in its self-appraisal,
at the disposal of a clear-eyed celebration of the world.
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