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Lark water
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- Book Synopsis
- "Like its title, the poems in Lorna Shaughnessy's wonderful new collection encompass flow and flight. Drawing on dream and story, they dodge nothing of the turbulence and grit of a life in full flow. Here are poems of extraordinary tenderness, as an elderly parent endures his last months - my boy-sized father, pupa in cocoon. And, albeit hard-won, here is exhaltation at the turn of a year scarred by loss as, even one thread/can become the first in a weave/that sparks a multi-coloured paisley/with blazing tongues of Zoroastrian fire." - MOYA CANNON
- About The Author
- LORNA SHAUGHNESSY has published four poetry collections, Torching the Brown River, Witness Trees, Anchored and Lark Water (all with Salmon Poetry) and a chapbook, Song of the Forgotten Shulamite (Lapwing). In 2018, she was awarded an Artist's Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland. Her monologues based on the myth of Iphigenia, Sacrificial Wind, were staged in 2016 and 2017 and adapted for online showings in 2021. She lectures in Hispanic Studies in NUI Galway and translates Galician, Spanish and Latin American poetry, including two collections by Manuel Rivas, The Disappearance of Snow and The Mouth of the Earth (Shearsman Books). She is the Director of Crosswinds: Irish and Galician Poetry and Translation, a collaboration of poets and translators in Galicia and Ireland.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781912561292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Salmon Poetry, (01 August 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 82
- Weight
- 148 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 235 x 156 x 7 mm
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