Description
The title poem of Conor Carville's second collection takes off from a London church and its congregation, but pushes on out into planetary, even cosmic dimensions. In another poem, the head of the Blessed Oliver Plunkett appears in the TV room of a London mental hospital, to tell the strange story of a mass on Clapham Common in 1984, when the London-Irish assembled to celebrate his beatification. These poems, and many others here, reassert the capacity of song to grasp the shape of a life, a community, or a world, in the shadow of its vast disorder. Sometimes lyric, sometimes violent, this is a book that teems with the martyrdoms, both everyday and epic, that punctuate our lives.
About the Author
Conor Carville is a poet and critic from Armagh, N. Ireland. His first collection, Harm's Way, was published by Dedalus Press. He lives in South London with his wife and daughter.
Book Information
ISBN 9781909747531
Author Conor Carville
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint Two Rivers Press
Publisher Two Rivers Press
About the Author
Conor Carville is a poet and critic from Armagh, N. Ireland. His first collection, Harm's Way, was published by Dedalus Press. He lives in South London with his wife and daughter.
Book Information
ISBN 9781909747531
Author Conor Carville
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint Two Rivers Press
Publisher Two Rivers Press
