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Fish On A Bicycle: New & Selected Poems |
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| Jean O'Brien |
ISBN: 978-1-910669-58-7 Page Count: 130 Publication Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 Cover Artwork: Kevin McSherry – www.mcsherry.ie |
About this Book
Jean O’Brien’s New & Selected is a revisiting of her four collections starting with The Shadow Keeper in 1997 and moving up to the present day. Her new poems mark a maturing of her work dealing with ill health, parenthood, nature and everything in between. As with her previous collections her work is honest and direct and calls for a similar response from the reader. As ever she broaches hard subjects without fear or compromise and faces her own mortality. These poems are dealt with in a light-hearted way that belies their seriousness, they are lively and always readable.
‘A prize-winning lyric poet whose presence on the Irish literary landscape establishes her as a narrator of poetic stories that often demonstrate unusual twists in the ordinary run of experience.’
Jean O’Brien’s voice is attuned to the inner rhythms of human yearning. She creates images that stay in the mind for an age using language that is ‘light like coins of memory, like treasure’. This book both consolidates and extends her reputation as a poet with her finger on the pulse of how we live now.
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