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A Herring Famine
Adam O´riordan
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Description for A Herring Famine
Paperback. Captures the struggle, folly and wonder of the human heart. This title impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. It also offers the intelligent, elegant and emotionally potent poems that are O'Riordan's trademark, yet pushes into bolder territories. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 215 x 9. Weight in Grams: 106.
The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant and emotionally potent poems that are O'Riordan's trademark, yet pushes into bolder territories, from a herring famine of 1907 to the Strangeways Prison Riot of 1990. Bounding place and time, and urging into being both the living and the dead, this crystalline collection captures the struggle, folly and wonder of the human heart.
The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant and emotionally potent poems that are O'Riordan's trademark, yet pushes into bolder territories, from a herring famine of 1907 to the Strangeways Prison Riot of 1990. Bounding place and time, and urging into being both the living and the dead, this crystalline collection captures the struggle, folly and wonder of the human heart.
Product Details
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780701187972
SKU
V9780701187972
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Ref
99-10
About Adam O´riordan
Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982, where he currently lives. In 2008 he became the youngest Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first collection In the Flesh (2010) win a Somerset Maugham Award. He is the Academic Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Reviews for A Herring Famine
In poems of poised lyricism, the book revealed an obsession with the line between beauty and violence, but also a fear of erasure, finding consolation in poetry's potential to commemorate and commit to memory... Like Heaney's, O'Riordan's best poems reveal an unusually precise attention to the texture, weight and subtle music of language. Glance from the barrel where the ... Read more