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Winter in the eye
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- Book Synopsis
- Winter in the Eye: New & Selected Poems brings together Joan McBreen's recent work with poems selected from her two previous collections: The Wind Beyond the Wall (1990) and A Walled Garden in Moylough (1995). This volume captures her elegant and finely-tuned lyric voice. A subtle simplicity of language makes her poems of place and home all the more powerful; highlighting moments of universal awareness and reaching beyond the poet's life into our own. McBreen's recent poems about illness and loss are written with a spare, unflinching beauty. Her moving, elegiac tone is ultimately a celebration, as darkness gives way to light. This is a poetry that seeks and reaches toward harmony, and truth. Joan McBreen's 2009 publications include a collection, Heather Island and the anthology The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets. Together with her ongoing involvement with Irish literary festivals such as the Yeats Summer School, Clifden Arts Week, Listowel Writers' Week and The Cúirt International Festival of Literature, since 2007 she has been Literary Advisor and co-ordinator of the Oliver St. John Gogarty Literary Festival at Renvyle House Hotel, Connemara, Co. Galway.
- About The Author
- Joan McBreen is from Sligo. She divides her time between Tuam and Renvyle, County Galway. Her poetry collections are: The Wind Beyond the Wall (Story Line Press, 1990), A Walled Garden in Moylough (Story Line Press and Salmon Poetry, 1995), Winter in the Eye - New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry, 2003) and Heather Island (Salmon Poetry, 2009; reprinted 2013 & 2016). She was awarded an MA from University College, Dublin in 1997. Her anthology The White Page / An Bhileog Bhán - Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets was published by Salmon in 1999 and is in its third reprint. She also edited and compiled the anthology The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets - Poems and Essays (Salmon, 2009).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781903392331
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Salmon Poetry, (01 January 2003)
- Number of Pages
- 91
- Weight
- 120 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 206 x 127 x 8 mm
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