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The poems in this volume celebrate love and lament its loss; bathe in the warmth of family while standing in the cold; see sexuality as a life force and measure the pulse of betrayal with a clarity that is nothing short of disarming. At times, O'Callaghan can be clever in the very best sense regarding technique and poetic voice, handling one with virtuosity and interrogating the other with postmodern zeal. At others, he drops his guard and witnesses the given life with a candor and simplicity that is made even more powerful because it has been so richly earned. All emotion is parried and tested with a command of poetry's themes and forms that is as deft as one is likely to encounter anywhere by anyone.
About the Author: Born in 1968 in Newry in Northern Ireland, Conor O'Callaghan grew up in Dundalk, a town just south of the Irish border. He served as Writer-in-Residence at University College, Dublin, taught at Wake Forest University for four years, and co-held the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University. Currently, he teaches at Sheffield Hallam University in England, where he teaches courses in creative writing, modern poetry, and Anglo-Irish literature. He presently lives in England, but has spent time traveling around England, Ireland, the United States, and Italy. WFU Press has published Seatown and Earlier Poems (2000); Fiction (2005), which was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award; and most recently The Sun King (2013). His earliest books include The History of Rain (1993) and Seatown (1999), both published in Ireland by The Gallery Press. He is also the editor of The Wake Forest Book of Irish Poetry, Volume III. O'Callaghan is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Patrick Kavanagh Award for his first collection of poetry, the Rooney Prize Special Award, and the Times Educational Fellowship. He was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 1994. In addition to poetry, Conor O'Callaghan's interests extend to writing on sport, especially soccer and cricket. In 1996, Irish national radio aired O'Callaghan's acclaimed radio documentary on cricket in Ireland, The Season. His prose memoir entitled Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War deals with the public uproar surrounding Ireland's involvement in the 2002 World Cup and made the bestseller lists in Ireland and the UK.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781930630673
  • Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wake Forest University Press
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 209 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1930630670
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 75
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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