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Offering an intimate look at the vast influence of Ireland's
extraordinary literary heritage, Hold Open the Door: A
Commemorative Anthology from the Ireland Chair of Poetry highlights
how a new Irish poetry is coming to stand alongside the tradition
from which it has grown - leaving that tradition enriched and
transformed. The Ireland Chair of Poetry Commemorative Anthology
celebrates the 25th anniversary of Seamus Heaney's Nobel Prize
Award, and the subsequent legacy created by the Ireland Chair of
Poetry. This contemporary anthology features original poems and
essays from some of the most exciting new and emerging Irish poets
as they reflect on the formative value of mentorship and creative
exchange, drawing inspiration from renowned poets and artists
across the island of Ireland and beyond. The collection is collated
and edited in collaboration with Frank Ormsby. Frank Ormsby serves
as the current Ireland Chair of Poetry. His most recent collections
include The Rain Barrel (Bloodaxe Books, 2019) and The Darkness of
Snow (Bloodaxe Books, 2017). He has previously been editor of The
Honest Ulsterman and Poetry Ireland Review. In 1992, he received
the Cultural Traditions Award, and in 2002, the Lawrence
O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN
POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE POETRY BOOK SOCIETY
RECOMMENDATION 'In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstanding debut
collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under the
skin' David Wheatley, Guardian Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's spellbinding
debut poetry collection explores love and the wounds it makes. Its
first half is composed of five sections, corresponding to the five
arrows of Kama, the Hindu God of Love, Desire and Memory. From
'stunning' and 'paralysing' to 'killing' and 'destroying', each
arrow has its own effect on some body - a very real, contemporary
body - and its particular journey of love. The second is a long
narrative poem, 'A is for [Arabs]', which follows a different kind
of journey: a family of refugees who have fled to the West from
conflict in an unspecified Middle Eastern country. With an
extraordinary structure, yoking abecedarian and Fibonacci
sequences, it is a skilful and intimate account of migration and
exile, of home and belonging.
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