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Playing the Octopus
Mary O´malley
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Description for Playing the Octopus
Paperback. Experimental new collection from award-winning Irish poet Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 10. Weight in Grams: 144.
Joint Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018. In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to 'swallow light through his skin', a wolf 'howls the great open vowel of his need', and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, 'a tree-shaped brightness dances'. Over the course of the collection, O'Malley twins the Irish west coast with the American east coast, Inis Mor with Coney Island, the parish ... Read more
Joint Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018. In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to 'swallow light through his skin', a wolf 'howls the great open vowel of his need', and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, 'a tree-shaped brightness dances'. Over the course of the collection, O'Malley twins the Irish west coast with the American east coast, Inis Mor with Coney Island, the parish ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784102807
SKU
9781784102807
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Ref
99-1
About Mary O´malley
Mary O'Malley was born in Connamara and educated at University College, Galway. She spent many years living in Portugal before returning to Ireland in the late 1980s and beginning a poetry career in 1990 with the title A Consideration of Silk from Galway-based publisher Salmon. She has since published six other books including a New and Selected. Her latest books ... Read more
Reviews for Playing the Octopus
'O'Malley is a true artist in sketching the beautiful, small details without which the essence of place, and the identity dependent on it, can be all too easily erased.' - Eavan Boland