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Sat 06 Jun 2009Brushing against joy
To Wake To ThisBy Enda WyleyDedalus, 66pp. €11
Heather IslandBy Joan McBreenSalmon Poetry, 50pp. €12pb/€18hb
Frog SpottingBy Peggy O’BrienDedalus, 88pp. €12
In Sight of HomeBy Nessa O’MahonySalmon, 196pp. €12
ENDA WYLEY is a true poet. To Wake To Thisarticulates a subtle, dreamy apprehension through a diction and an imagery all the writer’s own. Clooncunny’s“How our hands swayed through /reeds today, brushing against joy – ” is a characteristic opening, in mediares, and gives the verse its sense of movement.
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