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This is Martin Connolly's first collection of poems. It contains 31 original poetic compositions on subjects which range from the clearly dramatic -the birth of a child- to the apparently mundane -the purchasing of bread, the eating of an apple and the falling of rain. LABOURNIGHT & OTHER POEMS might be taken as a kind of autobiographical journey, spanning a period of over thirty years, from the author's native Ireland to his adopted home in Japan. Indeed, many of these poems open a door onto life in Japan, but not only. Life, death, war, the behaviour of very young children, busking, commuting, the machinery of modern life, you name it, this poetry engages by re-phrasing common experiences and sensations in language which is fresh, subtle and yet bold. Nothing is deemed unimportant. Anything could be fascinating. Banal dead-time on a train is fertile ground for inquiry, or fear, or even wonder. This is accessible poetry, vital poetry, a collection of compelling stories, born into a world that has, alas, forgotten what poetry is. It is hoped LABOURNIGHT & OTHER POEMS may breathe much-needed life into the age-old craft of poesie.
About the Author: Martin Connolly is Irish, from Belfast. He is a professor of literature at a university in Japan. He has published extensively on medieval English literature, Irish poetry (including Seamus Heaney) and the work of James Joyce, most recently working on Joyce's poetry. In 2015 he published a novella, 'Eri, a Japanese ghost story'. Snowchild Press. CRITICAL COMMENTARY: From eminent British poet, Gavin Bantock (author of Just Think of It, Eirenikon, Christ: A Poem in twenty six parts, etc.): "Martin Connolly has an acute eye for observation, a canny ear for sound and a unique way with words in expressing what he sees, hears and feels about things in the world high and low. His poems cover a wide range of topics from absolute realism to quaint fantasy, as titles like Elegy for a Convenience Store and The Snowchild testify. Open his book at almost any page and you will find an unexpected gem of an image or a pithy turn of phrase. He has a distinct voice of his own in a poetic world of fascinating interweavings of English, Celtic and Japanese fibres." From acclaimed Irish poet Lorna Shaugnessy (author of Torching the Brown River & Anchored, etc): "LABOURNIGHT & OTHER POEMS, Martin Connolly's first collection, takes the reader on a series of geographic, emotional and sensory journeys from 'The Helicopters' in North Belfast to the intercultural reflections inspired by 'Eating an apple on a commuter train in Japan', the poet's adopted home. In the collection's centrepiece, the long poem 'labournight', 'taut lines' are not only a feature of the mother's face but of the poem itself: gripping, real, it rollercoasters through the shifting rhythms and moods of a long labour from the expectant father's perspective. This is honest poetry, self-mocking rather than self-absorbed; it captures moments of absurdity and self-consciousness, exhaustion, fear and above all, intimacy. In many poems the world is rediscovered, as is language, aided by the company of toddler sons. But the reality of 'routine in among the wonder' is here too; the 'choreography' of the commuter, 'scrummaging for a seat'. Observations of the everyday are acutely captured in language that is fresh and flexible, as poems move fluently between the particular and Connolly's philosophical probing of 'the giant constructs of community'." Snowchild Press Official Website: https: //snowchildpress.weebly.com/


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781911100041
  • Publisher: Snowchild Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Snowchild Press
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 159 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1911100041
  • Publisher Date: 23 Sep 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 129 mm


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