POETRY
BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
This
revised edition of Medbh McGuckian's third collection extends
her rhapsodic enquiry into the nature of boundaries and borders.
Its odyssey ends where 'I had forgotten there could be such light'.
'Desire, not Belfast, is the site of the battle of which she gives an astonishingly
colourful, inwardly spinning, dazed and elegiac report.
— Calvin Bedient, Parnassus
'A different purpose is being served here. The images are there not to elucidate but to detonate and resonate in all their weird energy.'
— Peter Sirr, The Irish Times
'The beauty and genius of these poems continually redefine our notions of poetry.
— Molly Bendall, The Antioch Review
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