Following his acclaimed Pandemonium, Thomas McCarthy’s Prophecy
dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of
human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft,
in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods and themes.
There are poems on illness and recovery, ageing and creativity.
From the community well of his childhood home in County Waterford
to the holy well and pilgrim site of St Gobnait’s in County Cork,
the poet finds that the act of remembering is an act of making and
understanding. `All this / Metaphor and trauma and formal technique
/ I place in my canvas travel bag’, he writes, beginning his
poetic journeys into formal Irish Gardens of Remembrance, field
hospitals of the great War, the 1970s university campus of Iowa.
`Along with Paul Muldoon,’ suggested Dennis O’Driscoll,
McCarthy is `the most important Irish poet of his generation.’
General
| Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
March 2019 |
| Authors: |
Thomas McCarthy
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 135 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
88 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78410-727-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-78410-727-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781784107277 |
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