The Spring edition of SHOp, a magazine of poetry, brings a fresh crop of blooms for the senses to savour. This illustrated collection begins with a poem by the late James Liddy who sadly passed away in November.
In Mexico City evokes a colourful vision of the old Aztec city with Liddy kissing Lorca’s bust and thinking of Marx in the old Aztec sun kingdom as Frida Kahlo’s love train passes by. Theo Dorgan rounds off this rich collection with Return to Hania. Sitting in Piraeus, waiting for a boat to the Greek islands, thoughts of past visits and passed time bring on the old blues. These doleful dumps are banished though by the sight of “lithe bronze girls” and “quick young men” with “eternity in their every glance” who allow the old joys come alive again. This fine publication deserves all the respect it receives from maestros Montague, Heaney, O’Donoghue, et al. See www.theshop-poetry-magazine.ie.
