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Matthew Sweeney - Inquisition Lane - 9781780371481 - 9781780371481
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Inquisition Lane

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Description for Inquisition Lane Paperback. Eleventh collection by one of the best-known poets of Britain and Ireland: poems haunted by mortality, by other worlds and far-flung places, by visitations and violent events like the Spanish Inquisition. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 160.
Matthew Sweeney's eleventh collection of poems is haunted by mortality, by other worlds and far-flung places, by visitations and violent events like the Spanish Inquisition. The poems are imaginative riffs featuring troubling companions and troublesome thoughts: ghosts and spirits, anger and guilt, crows and horses, a runaway calf and a footballing elephant. And yet amid the outlandish adventures and macabre musings in Inquisition Lane, other notes are also sounded: the poems can be lyrical as well as exuberant, saddened as well as extravagant. Dear friends are remembered. Faith is questioned. The Catholic Church is interrogated. German monks zoom by on ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780371481
SKU
9781780371481
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Matthew Sweeney
Matthew Sweeney (1952-2018) was born in Lifford, Co. Donegal, Ireland. He moved to London in 1973 and studied at the Polytechnic of North London and the University of Freiburg. After living in Berlin and Timisoara for some years, he returned to Ireland and settled in Cork. He died in August 2018 from motor neurone disease. His poetry collections include A ... Read more

Reviews for Inquisition Lane
'A poet of obsession and ritual...often elusive or mysterious...enlivened with his saturnine, uncomfortably insistent humour...Ambitious and troubling, linking Ireland to the Black Sea and madness to history, grim as death and very funny' - Sean O'Brien, Guardian. 'Haunting fables of entrapment or imprisonment, of troubled sleep, of persecution and loneliness treated with Kafkaesque attention to detail' - Alan Brownjohn, Sunday ... Read more

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