What Trudy Knows and Other Poems follows the ground broken by Knute Skinner's last collection The Bears and Other Poems. An unusual group of poems - each a brief telling of a moment in the life of one or more imaginary characters. The poems probe a variety of human relationships. As Aidan Murphy wrote of The Bears.... "A stunning collection, full of mystery, cross-purpose, weird and tragic characters... reminiscent of the short stories of the American Raymond Carver loaded with shocks and unspoken nuances of dirty realism." What Trudy Knows continues this radical departure, with verve.

About the Author

Knute Skinner is an American-born poet who has had a home in County Clare for thirty-two years and whose work has appeared widely in Ireland, Britain, Australia and America. He has been a professor of English at Western Washington University and for many years served as director of the Signpost Press and editor of the Bellingham Review. He is the author of nine previous collections of poetry, three of them with Salmon Poetry, and his work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including A Geography of Poets and Irish Poetry Now. Stretches, his next collection of poetry, is due from Salmon in September 2002.

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