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The Seasons of Cullen Church (Paperback, Main)
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The Seasons of Cullen Church (Paperback, Main)
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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. Many of these poems speak in elegy: for Connolly's Bookshop
- closed down and mourned - or for lost friends; for the nostalgic
places to which one cannot return, the field-corners and long roads
of the deep past: 'So wistful is the recognition now / of the
places that I hardly noted'. The stunning title piece, and the deft
and poignant poems that make up this collection, will confirm
O'Donoghue's place as one of the most approachable and agile voices
in contemporary Irish and British poetry. 'I'm fascinated by
O'Donoghue's wry vision, his infinitely gentle manner of displacing
our more predictable reactions to things as they are so that we
glimpse their underlying tragedy.' Tom Paulin
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