Poèmes gaéliques du XXème siècle. Calligrammes, 1984. Aistrithe ag Éamon Ó Ciosáin. Clúdach bog, riocht maith go leor. Smáil ar an chlúdach. Dorchú ar an droim agus clúdach. Clúdach beagáinín caite ar an imeall chomh maith. Na leathanaigh gearrtha go garbh ach glan taobh istigh. // Paperback, fair condition. Discolouration to cover. Edge of cover somewhat worn. Pages roughly trimmed. Clean inside.
bandit country, the much-anticipated debut poetry collection from James Conor Patterson, is a rollicking, hyper-literate and at times deeply troubling account of a young man's navigation of the semi-lawless borderlands between the north of Ireland and the Republic - the 'bandit country' of the Troubles - and the criss-crossed sea border to England and beyond. Patterson shows us how the militarised boundary line of old has morphed into an invisible and semi-wild frontier, where the ghosts of a thirty-year war continue to haunt the 'ceasefire generation'. Patterson writes in a hybrid dialect of Newry street and Scots and Irish-inflected English - and in a virtuosic variety of forms: these poems crackle with vernacular wit and the rhythms of everyday speech, absorbing the influence of the poet's Belfast mentor, Ciaran Carson, and the radical poetics of Tom Leonard. Already a rising star and Eric Gregory award-winner, James Conor Patterson is an extraordinary talent at the forefront of a new wave of poets exploring the linguistic inheritance of region and community.
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