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The Sea Cabinet
Caitriona O´reilly
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Description for The Sea Cabinet
Paperback. Features poems on nature and history, including the vanished world of the whaling industry. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 4. Weight in Grams: 110.
Caitriona O'Reilly's poetry is remarkable for its precise observation of the natural world. Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet , broadens that clear-sighted vision in poems also haunted by history, consolidating the achievement of her prizewinning debut volume, The Nowhere Birds. Her title-poem conjures the vanished world of the whaling industry, and serves as a starting-point for other acute meditations on natural and cultural obsolescence. Yet, the habitual concerns of the lyric self are present too, in poems which enact the dilemmas and anxieties of the individual amidst a rapidly changing environment. Caitriona O'Reilly's first collection ... Read more
Caitriona O'Reilly's poetry is remarkable for its precise observation of the natural world. Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet , broadens that clear-sighted vision in poems also haunted by history, consolidating the achievement of her prizewinning debut volume, The Nowhere Birds. Her title-poem conjures the vanished world of the whaling industry, and serves as a starting-point for other acute meditations on natural and cultural obsolescence. Yet, the habitual concerns of the lyric self are present too, in poems which enact the dilemmas and anxieties of the individual amidst a rapidly changing environment. Caitriona O'Reilly's first collection ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
109g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247058
SKU
V9781852247058
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About Caitriona O´reilly
CAITRIONA O'REILLY was born Dublin in 1973, and lives in Wicklow and Hull. She studied at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote a doctoral thesis on American literature. She received a major bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland in 1999. The Nowhere Birds was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2001, and won the Rooney ... Read more
Reviews for The Sea Cabinet
A watchful exercise in lyric and narrative which promises more from this writer in the future. A narrative arrangement that is subtle and effective.