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A Smell Of Fish (Paperback)
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A Smell Of Fish (Paperback)
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The poems in A Smell of Fish connect and radiate like the spokes of
a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody
else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea
sequence set on the Suffolk coast, and - long overdue - Matthew
Sweeney's own version of the old Irish poem where his namesake is
turned into a bird. In this, his seventh collection, we are back in
a world where all explanations are withheld. 'If Beckett and Kafka
come to mind', as Sean O'Brien wrote in his essay on Sweeney in The
Deregulated Muse, 'they are not simply influences but kindred
imaginations'. So we encounter a valley mysteriously filling with
the smell of fish, second-world-war planes reappearing over London,
a secret attic mural of a naked ex-lover, a cosmonaut abandoned on
the moon, and a subterranean tunnel that runs the length of
Ireland. Whatever the subject, we are in the confident hands of one
of the most imaginatively gifted poets now writing.
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