sensuous details: tayberries
Huracan explores how we navigate the inequalities and privileges of birth and the possibilities for life
A pretty girl strolled past
Formerly a teacher and headmaster
then turned her bespectacled face to the class and said: ‘Today
Knowledge in the Blood: New and Selected Poems Kevin Simmonds sensuous details: tayberries"The curt, abbreviated pressure of these lines, a constant trait in the work of Macdara Woods, pushes the text out to demand a co creative act of reading" Brian Coates reviewing The Nightingale Water and Knowledge in the Blood in Poetry Ireland Review "This is language raised, like prayer and other holy forms, to be instructive, healing, memorable and accurate. In the performance of these duties, Macdara Woods is among the most trustworthy, his voice