9%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Prophecy
Thomas McCarthy
€ 11.99
€ 10.95
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Prophecy
Paperback.
Following his acclaimed Pandemonium, Thomas McCarthy’s Prophecy dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods and themes. There are poems on illness and recovery, ageing and creativity. From the community well of his childhood home in County Waterford to the holy well and pilgrim site of St Gobnait’s in County Cork, the poet finds that the act of remembering is an act of making and understanding. `All this / Metaphor and trauma and formal technique / I place in my ... Read more
Following his acclaimed Pandemonium, Thomas McCarthy’s Prophecy dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods and themes. There are poems on illness and recovery, ageing and creativity. From the community well of his childhood home in County Waterford to the holy well and pilgrim site of St Gobnait’s in County Cork, the poet finds that the act of remembering is an act of making and understanding. `All this / Metaphor and trauma and formal technique / I place in my ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784107277
SKU
9781784107277
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
About Thomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy was born in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, in 1954 and educated locally and at University College Cork where he was auditor of the English Literature Society. He has published many collections of poetry, including The First Convention, The Sorrow Garden, Lost Province, Merchant Prince and The Last Geraldine Officer. He has also published three novels, Without Power, Asya and ... Read more
Reviews for Prophecy
`His voice – with its idiosyncratic tone and verbal texture – registered firmly as one of the most distinctive and it is now one of the most authoritative among poets of his generation.’ - Dublin Review of Books